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I don't see anything wrong with it auralyra Send a noteboard - 07/09/2009 04:10:15 AM
Robin Hobb wrote six books from Fitz's perspective and they are brilliant. I think you just have to be really careful to avoid character cliches, and make sure your characters have depth.

- Sarah

What's the general opinion on writing in the first person for the opposite gender? That is to say, I am a man who writes from the first person perspective of a woman or vice versa?

Is this generally not done? Looked upon poorly? Does it weird anyone out? Or is it just avoided for the obvious difficulties it would entail.
- Sarah
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First Person Perspective MalkierKnight - 04/09/2009 06:34:16 AM 626 Views
You mean, for fiction? Burr - 04/09/2009 06:50:20 AM 503 Views
Re: First Person Perspective Kylia Skydancer - 04/09/2009 07:00:02 AM 530 Views
Re: Panorphaeon - 04/09/2009 07:09:29 AM 572 Views
Re: Re: MalkierKnight - 04/09/2009 05:42:15 PM 453 Views
i think it's really weird. sometimes it works though... *NM* temeraire - 04/09/2009 07:13:26 AM 210 Views
It is fine if it is done well. I have seen it done very well and embarrassingly badly. Tashmere - 04/09/2009 09:22:44 AM 542 Views
Well... MalkierKnight - 04/09/2009 05:43:48 PM 506 Views
First person is a little harder to write then third person random thoughts - 04/09/2009 06:56:46 PM 684 Views
Honestly, I don't think that it would be that hard for a man to write from a womans view point. Tashmere - 04/09/2009 09:28:19 PM 510 Views
Re: It is fine if it is done well. I have seen it done very well and embarrassingly badly. Geniac - 05/09/2009 12:28:28 AM 448 Views
get a woman to proof read for you random thoughts - 04/09/2009 06:39:28 PM 500 Views
Re: get a woman to proof read for you Kylia Skydancer - 07/09/2009 06:40:45 AM 619 Views
Anne Bronte did it quite sucessfully in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Aviendha - 04/09/2009 09:13:53 PM 455 Views
I don't see anything wrong with it auralyra - 07/09/2009 04:10:15 AM 586 Views
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