narrators: male or female?

[electric1]

In a first person story, do you prefer the narrator be your own gender, or the gender you are attracted to?

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

When I'm writing, I prefer to write first person female because I find it hard to write in a man's voice when I don't have the proper equipment. I've done it before and it never reads right to me.

However, I prefer to read first person, period. Male or female, though I lean more toward reading the male voice.

 

[SamScribble]

I think it depends on the story. Some stories are best told from a male perspective, some from a female perspective. If it's an interesting story, well told, the sex of the narrator will usually sort itself out.

 

[sr71plt]

Nearly all of my erotica first-person stories are in my own gender. My mainstream first-person stories are split pretty evenly.

 

[kromen]

Usually, I write from a male's point of view. I did try writing as a female and got some good feedback because I made the character dominant, and she didn't have to don a dominatrix outfit to do it.

 

[lovecraft68]

The majority of my work is from the female POV and I seem to pull it off okay. Most likely because none of my female leads are overly feminine helpless female types. The typical female lead in my stories are fairly dominant.

All of my mother/son incest stories are done from the male POV. I think this is because I can somehow see a boy being attracted to his mother, but for the life of me can't fathom what would go through a mother's mind to seduce their son.

 

[PennLady]

I prefer it be third person, but I guess that's not the question. I can't say it matters to me. Aside from my preference for 3d person, so long as the story is well-written, I don't think I care what gender the narrator is.

 

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[Boxlicker101]

Being a man, my first person stories will always be the male perspective. I have never tried to write in the first person as a woman, and I don't believe I could. In third person, I try to be gender neutral, like some kind of an unseen presence watching the characters and reporting their actions, but not being part of them.

You know, the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of attempting to write a story in first person as if I were a woman.

 

[electric1]

When I'm writing, I prefer to write first person female because I find it hard to write in a man's voice when I don't have the proper equipment. I've done it before and it never reads right to me.

However, I prefer to read first person, period. Male or female, though I lean more toward reading the male voice.

The reason I posed this question is because I'm in the same boat with Red. As a man, I feel more confident describing things from a man's viewpoint, but as a heterosexual reader, I prefer the voice of a woman describing what gets her hot and bothered.

They say, "write what you want to read," but they also say, "write what you know." These two ideals are in conflict.

This would be so much easier if I were gay.

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

The reason I posed this question is because I'm in the same boat with Red. As a man, I feel more confident describing things from a man's viewpoint, but as a heterosexual reader, I prefer the voice of a woman describing what gets her hot and bothered.

They say, "write what you want to read," but they also say, "write what you know." These two ideals are in conflict.

This would be so much easier if I were gay.

Exactly. I can't very well write what it feels like to get a hand job, but I can write what it feels like to give one.

I usually go with the "write what you know." Or I try to. It's hard to know what happens when half my characters aren't human and don't actually exist. >.> I like to think of it as "write what you can make believable."

 

[sr71plt]

They say, "write what you want to read," but they also say, "write what you know." These two ideals are in conflict.

Such guidance is just that, guidance, not a rule. The more and better you write, the less you need such guidance.

 

[YDB95]

When it comes to "write what you know," I always keep in mind that phrase is often attributed to Ernest Hemingway. And he never really ran with the bulls. No sense in setting up artificial limits to one's imagination!

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

I take the "write what you know" thing with a grain of salt. (No, it's not a rule, we know that.) One of my favorite more modern authors is Laurell K Hamilton (everything before Obsidian Butterfly). When asked about the whole "write what you know" thing, she said something along the lines of there is no way to "know" fantastical creatures. (I'm paraphrasing this because I don't want to look up the exact quote) But you know the world around you. You know the elements in that world. You make those things as real as possible because it makes it easier for the reader to believe that there are vampires doing battle in circus tents and zombies being called forth to attack and eat people.

If your world isn't believable, then that will make your characters even less believable. So yeah, write what you know. That way when you feed it to your readers they don't notice the demons lurking around every bend.

 

[SamScribble]

On the 'write what you know' theme, I recall reading somewhere that there are factual facts and there are an author's facts.

Good authors have the ability to make us believe facts that have come straight from their imagination. A narrator - male or female - doesn't have to be correct, they just have to be convincing.

 

[Neonurotic]

Generally, I write in third person, but I do have a story that I've written in first person and have written as my own sex. As for reading stories, I'd rather third person as well. First person is reads so bossy and I have a difficult time getting into the story.

 

[MatthewVett]

I prefer to read a viewpoint from my own gender. As for writing, I have little preference. I write from whomever's perspective is better for the story.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

As a woman who writes gay male, I always write from the male perspective, but in most cases I either write it from both perspectives or only from the more submissive man's perspective.

In one of my straight stories, I wrote as the man, in the other, I wrote as the woman.