My current and main project features reincarnation (to put it simply) - I have decided to split the story to four sections (and the number four is...
A while ago I read this article suggesting that men are more likely to write a male lead and women are more likely to write a female lead....
The last year I've noticed that I mostly can tell the gender of the author of a romance novel by his/her word choices, the way s/he describes...
Hello, I have a story where one character is a teacher. There is enough POV from her that we know her first name, but most of the story takes...
I think of creating a character first before choosing what gender identity they are and what their sexuality is, and their ethnicity, for the most...
So...if the first half (and part of the middle) of a book consists of primarily female characters, with only a few men or boys, what would be your...
Brain broken. Cannot think. I know there is a plural contracted form that is used in greetings (as in Dear Sir or Dear Madam), and it's...
Kind of techie, but interesting, I thought, and I suspect the effect is more pronounced in much of the fantasy genre that's popular here....
Like that title says, I have a character that I want to keep gender neutral. Reasoning? None in particular other than I just want to. :p I am...
Something that always irritates me when it comes to sports is when people compare, for example, men and women's soccer/football, and then promptly...
I often find that authors will write about their same gender. I also find that this is not the case with myself. I usually have male characters...
As a reader sometimes I've discovered poorly written female or male characters that were developed by an author of the opposite gender. I'm not...
I'm playing with ideas for a magical world in which everyone is born with a fixed (typically very long by our terms) life expectancy that they are...
I ran into this problem when I started to really get into my main project last year and now that I've figured it out for myself I'm curious. When...
How does gender affect how you approach your story and your character? I was thinking about two of my "sucked into the video game" stories. Both...
I just noticed that under 'Personal Details' I can set my gender with the radio-button near the top (Male | Female | Unspecified) and then once...
Hello, everyone!!! I'm new here, and I wanted to start my entrance off with a bang, with a brainstorming session! So, some of my favorite Sci-fi...
Have you ever read a post by someone on this site and thought for sure it was a girl, and then you checked below "her" avatar, and it had a shiny...
I recently read a blog that stated that boys in middle school (and high school, but I'm writing more for middle school) don't like to read books...
At least one of my female friends have commented that they prefer reading about male protagonists, who in their opinion, are more interesting than...
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