narrative in the opposite gender

[cacian]

Do you ever attempt to narrate a piece or write a story using a different gender/ the opposite gender?
In other words you the writer is the opposite sex.

If so what did you write about?

[hillwalker]

Certainly - too many times to explain what I wrote about in detail but there are numerous poems on here written from the pov of young girls or young women, a short story from the pov of a lesbian, Lithuanian sociopath, and my latest project is a Young aAdult novel narrated by a diabetic teenager... I could go on, but I won't.

H

[Charles Darnay]

Definitely. I tend to use multi-narrators in longer stories, and some are bound to be women. I admit my fall-back narrator is the easier to write, but not the most rewarding. Paper is the great equalizer for genders: that is, the masculine and feminine are not so easily distinguished. You don't have to have a male narrators farting and thinking about sex on every page to make him sound realistic. I'm thinking of this one story I read where the narrator remains anonymous for half the books, and based on the way the narrator describes a relationship, you are meant to think that it is a male narrator - until you learn that she is a lesbian. Such play with expectations can work really effectively in some cases.

[AuntShecky]

Yours fooly is more likely to have a protagonist and/or narrator of the opposite sex, only because that gender happens to be the one that interests me more.

[cacian]

Certainly - too many times to explain what I wrote about in detail but there are numerous poems on here written from the pov of young girls or young women, a short story from the pov of a lesbian, Lithuanian sociopath, and my latest project is a Young aAdult novel narrated by a diabetic teenager... I could go on, but I won't.

H
A Lithuanian sociopath? How do you approach sociopathy in writing? Do you research it first?

[hillwalker]

A Lithuanian sociopath? How do you approach sociopathy in writing? Do you research it first?

I trust my imagination to do that for me. :mad5:

H

[MANICHAEAN]

Well H, you won't go far wrong then!

M

[WolfLarsen]

Do you ever attempt to narrate a piece or write a story using a different gender/ the opposite gender?
In other words you the writer is the opposite sex.

If so what did you write about?

I think the problem here is a lack of creativity. For example, imagine everybody waking up tomorrow morning and each person on the planet is suddenly five different genders – or more! Now wouldn't that be a fun book to write – and read!

Just having two genders is too conventional!