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Re: First Person Perspective Kylia Skydancer Send a noteboard - 04/09/2009 07:00:02 AM
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.


I think it can be done but requires you to root yourself *very* strongly in that character...if you're going to write a female perspective in the first person, you're going to have to set your maleness aside. and maybe have a female look it over for you after, just in case.

The bigger issue is that writing in first person can limit your story in scope. You can only write about what your character personally sees and only about your character's own feelings.
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First Person Perspective MalkierKnight - 04/09/2009 06:34:16 AM 602 Views
You mean, for fiction? Burr - 04/09/2009 06:50:20 AM 477 Views
Re: First Person Perspective Kylia Skydancer - 04/09/2009 07:00:02 AM 505 Views
Re: Panorphaeon - 04/09/2009 07:09:29 AM 547 Views
Re: Re: MalkierKnight - 04/09/2009 05:42:15 PM 430 Views
i think it's really weird. sometimes it works though... *NM* temeraire - 04/09/2009 07:13:26 AM 197 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 517 Views
Well... MalkierKnight - 04/09/2009 05:43:48 PM 483 Views
First person is a little harder to write then third person random thoughts - 04/09/2009 06:56:46 PM 654 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 486 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 428 Views
get a woman to proof read for you random thoughts - 04/09/2009 06:39:28 PM 473 Views
Re: get a woman to proof read for you Kylia Skydancer - 07/09/2009 06:40:45 AM 598 Views
Anne Bronte did it quite sucessfully in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Aviendha - 04/09/2009 09:13:53 PM 434 Views
I don't see anything wrong with it auralyra - 07/09/2009 04:10:15 AM 557 Views
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