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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 - 04/09/2009 06:34:16 AM 512 Views
You mean, for fiction? - 04/09/2009 06:50:20 AM 381 Views
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i think it's really weird. sometimes it works though... *NM* - 04/09/2009 07:13:26 AM 161 Views
It is fine if it is done well. I have seen it done very well and embarrassingly badly. - 04/09/2009 09:22:44 AM 420 Views
Well... - 04/09/2009 05:43:48 PM 388 Views
First person is a little harder to write then third person - 04/09/2009 06:56:46 PM 549 Views
get a woman to proof read for you - 04/09/2009 06:39:28 PM 375 Views
Re: get a woman to proof read for you - 07/09/2009 06:40:45 AM 496 Views
Anne Bronte did it quite sucessfully in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - 04/09/2009 09:13:53 PM 343 Views
I don't see anything wrong with it - 07/09/2009 04:10:15 AM 467 Views

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