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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Interesting. In my second book I have some first person scenes from a female main character, and not being confident of my ability to think like a woman, I wrote out all the scenes best I could and then handed the text to my wife and asked her to "make it sound like a girl"  |
I highly encourage authors to hand off a "different-from-them" character to someone more in touch with the character type for constructive criticism.
The other thing to remember is that your character is a person, just like everyone else. I.e., not just a gender, skin color, sexual orientation, etc. with the accompanying stereotype baggage.
And ANY time a writer says "well, stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason..." put down the pencil and back away for a breather.