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Q&A Should I make the gender of the narrator more obvious?

I think the gender and sexual ambiguity only makes this story that much more compelling. I've written similarly vague characters in the past and consider it not only more difficult to hide a charac...

posted 10y ago by CodeCharming‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T03:27:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/10706
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar CodeCharming‭ · 2019-12-08T03:27:57Z (almost 5 years ago)
I think the gender and sexual ambiguity only makes this story that much more compelling. I've written similarly vague characters in the past and consider it not only more difficult to hide a character's gender throughout the narrative but also a pretty big compliment. You can even use this technique to conduct your own mini-experiment of people's perceptions of differences between male and female voice--and potentially use that to strengthen your writing otherwise.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2014-04-10T15:52:17Z (over 10 years ago)
Original score: 2