male characters
I find myself writing a lot with male characters. I’m not sure why. Maybe in part because I do think that men are more superior in some areas, namely, the areas that I write. I don’t not have female characters; I just do a lot with male characters.
(Just to give you an idea: in Hope–Senior, and Richard. Female–Hope and maybe Agatha and Lisa. In Shad–Shad, Kontyo, plus a number of minor male characters such as Vaul, Emin, and Dr. P.. Female, Aurora and Kayla. In codename mindskill–Isaiah, Miles, Karl, Lucas, Eric. Female, VAnessa and Jessica. In Kontyo–I think I’m going to only have one brief appearance by a female. Giant’s Wife–Heddwyn and Pauldor (although I do have Jacey and Eva to offset them.))
I guess part of me figures that so long as I stay away from love stories (which I’m not doing with Eric), I should be fine with writing male characters. I think I view female and males as basically the same. Which I find strange because I was reading that Woolf found there to be very little difference between male and females.
I don’t know. But I do find this fact that I write male characters so often slightly disturbing, because maybe there is more that I don’t know about.
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Abigail
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I tend to use female characters as main characters though I have a lot of males as supporting characters. I think this is mostly because I understand female characters better and I think I create more believable female characters than males.
I don’t think it matters so long as the characters you create are believable to the reader.
That creates complications though when you are a female writer with only female test readers. But I have been thinking about this since I posted it and based on the male characters written by male authors I’ve read, I think my theory is correct that there isn’t that much difference in thought patterns on paper. I still wish I had more female characters than male characters in lead roles though.