Just to get a couple of different perspectives on something that I've noticed I needed to get squared away when I started revising some old stories. I'm used to writing a majority of my stories from a female main character POV (first person), and I've gotten used to the style(?) of writing. I've switched it up a lot in the past two years of writing numerous short stories, and have moved to either co-ed main characters, switching POVs every other time lapse/chapter break, my traditional female main character, or the male main character.
But every time I write in the POV of a male character, I feel like I'm doing something...wrong. Maybe in how I'm organizing the thought process, the actions, the absence of the detail, the presence of too much detail, etc. So if you guys have a specific way you write for your characters that are character specific, or have some sort of article or anything, let me know! I'm interested in hearing a lot of opinions.
So, is there any specific way you write your female/male main characters? Do you prefer to write a female or male main character? Do you prefer to read a fe/male character? Etc. Etc.
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