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I’m trying to improve my writing skills, doing both original works and facfiction, but there is a peculiar limitation to what I achieve. Despite being male, I fail to write from a male perspective ...
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protagonist
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T13:10:07Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/48650 License name: CC BY-SA 4.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Alexander Z.
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2019-12-08T13:10:07Z (over 4 years ago)
I’m trying to improve my writing skills, doing both original works and facfiction, but there is a peculiar limitation to what I achieve. Despite being male, I fail to write from a male perspective and shift to female protagonists as fast as possible. Being concerned about the believability of my characters and situations, I’m constantly worried about not handling my protagonists true to life enough, as I do not share the female perspective. Should I treat it as a bug or a feature? Namely: what has more point, forcing myself into more and more attempts with male protagonists until I start managing them well, or embracing my limitation and turn it into my strength by strengthening my ability to pull off a convincing female protagonist?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-10-21T19:38:01Z (over 4 years ago)
Original score: 6