[stylist] using opposite gender for main characters

[Brad Dunsé]

The only issue I can see, and it's not really an 
issue if handled proper, is when writing from the 
perspective of the other gendre, depending on the 
age and background of the  character, you need to 
speak the gender language and have the character 
behave accordingly . For instance you might hear, 
"Dude!  Your fro lost its mojo."
  Boy or girl? In this case either, if in the 
teens or first years of college. Another example 
might be  two girls might hug each other  if they 
hadn't seen each other in a while,  guys will 
shake hands, slug shoulders or some other 
gesture.  These are obviously extremes or obvious 
but there are other subtle differences to take in 
consideration  depending on age, situation, rural 
or city dwellers, etc. Point is to be  character 
convincing, other than that away you go. Look at 
Agatha Christi with 
<http://www.docstoc.com/docs/69876981/Death-on-the-Nile-Hercule-Poirot-by-Agatha-Christi---The-Best-Poroit-Book>Hercule<http://www.docstoc.com/docs/69876981/Death-on-the-Nile-Hercule-Poirot-by-Agatha-Christi---The-Best-Poroit-Book> 
Poirot, though  HP isn't  who I'd envision 
could  "man up" as the Miller Lite commercials 
like to say on Sunday football, but she still 
pulls off an opposite gender character.

Brad





On 1/8/2012  11:26 PM vejas said...
>Hi,
>As all of you know I'm a boy.  However, I often 
>like to use girls for my main characters.
>Is this wrong? I guess it might not be, but I 
>still think people might feel it weird.  For 
>some reason, I like to use girls as my main 
>character, and I'm thinking of a story in which the main character is a girl.
>Any thoughts?
>Vejas
>
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