Questions tagged [gender]
For questions that deal with the representation of the social construct of gender in your writing.
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Tips on writing a transgender character?
I have a transgender oc, Rocky, born Rochelle. He's like eight. He doesn't know anything about LGBTQ+ people or that his twin sister Rosamie (Rosie) is a lesbian and has her own struggles and will ...
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How do I write from a male's POV?
I am a female who is writing from two points of view: one being a female and one being a male. It is also a romance/mystery novel. I noticed when some of my male friends read it they said that some of ...
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How should I switch between different pronouns when writing a nonbinary/genderqueer character?
(For refrence, I'm trans, and have done my research on this stuff.)
A character from a story I'm writing is nonbinary/genderqueer. Basically, they just don't care about gender. I really want to write ...
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Is there a smooth way to indicate that third person pronouns don't matter so much in my worldbuilding in English?
For context, I am nonbinary, and also East Asian.
My language of fluency is English, but I know other languages and also have an anthropology degree. (Japanese, Korean, a tiny, tiny bit of Mandarin, ...
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Not revealing my MC's gender [duplicate]
I couldn't decide on whether the protagonist should be a girl or a boy. The MC's gender would just never be revealed and nobody would care about it, like in Undertale. Readers would barely question it ...
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How do you write a strong female character?
I've heard people talk about how they don't like the 'strong female character' story in hero movies because they're written bad, but how is a good strong female character written?
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Should I go out of my way to write certain female archetypes out of my stories?
Should I go out of my way to write certain female archetypes out of my stories? I think some archetypes for female characters are offensive. For example, there's the femme fatale archetype. The femme ...
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Pronouns for a character that body hops?
I'm currently writing a paranormal thriller novel where people can inhabit other peoples' bodies -- regardless of sex, gender identity, or sexuality. I'm currently in moral turmoil over how to use ...
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Is there any pronoun in English that can include both HE and SHE?
Some languages like Persian do not have gender for pronouns. For example, they use just one pronoun (Ou) to refer to he/she. This makes the language gender-neutral which to me it is more convenient in ...
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How can I balance a male character saving his love interest without making the female seem incompetent (and vice versa)?
Stories for many, many years made frequent use of the damsel in distress trope, where female characters are depicted as needing men to save them in big, dramatic displays. People eventually realized ...
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Using they singular sounds grammatically incorrect
I asked this question some weeks ago.
I have settled on using they/them
But using they/them singular sounds weird and grammatically incorrect.
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They is struggling in school
Compared to the plural
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What pronouns should I use for a character with no gender?
I'm writing a book in which there is a character with no gender.
I don't know what pronouns I should use for this character.
I can't use he/she.
What pronouns should I use?
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How do I make a headstrong female character likable and not annoying?
I have a story where one of my lead characters is a headstrong young woman. In terms of personality she is hyperactive, energetic, and charismatic, but at the same time these traits make her arrogant, ...
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How do I tastefully handle a female-to-male transforming character?
My character is a girl who is later revealed in my story to be under a curse that allows her to transform into an older man. She is sharing a body with a powerful male spirit who can take control and ...
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How do I keep my character's gender a complete mystery?
At first my protagonist was going to be a female role, until I started having an inclination for male characters and the fact that I am a total BL (“boy’s love”, stories about male homosexual romance) ...
