First of all, I think it's really neat that you are blogging on your panel topics. I like that idea so much, I might try it after my next convention. It's just a clever idea!
Second: I am with you. I don't feel that a writer necessarily writes one gender better just because they are that gender. Sometimes we write what we know well and sometimes we write what we observe well...and sometimes it just seems natural and we write it. This question, about writing gender, is often asked by non-writers...to writers, I think it is much simpler.
That being said, I do notice that many writers get members of the other gender wrong (though many do it right, too.) Women tend to make their men too introspective. Men sometimes make their women to blunt and straightforward...but often, this doesn't really take away from one's enjoyment. I know a number of books where I don't think the author really nailed the opposite sex...but I still really like the books just fine.
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Date: 2009-02-27 09:29 pm (UTC)Second: I am with you. I don't feel that a writer necessarily writes one gender better just because they are that gender. Sometimes we write what we know well and sometimes we write what we observe well...and sometimes it just seems natural and we write it. This question, about writing gender, is often asked by non-writers...to writers, I think it is much simpler.
That being said, I do notice that many writers get members of the other gender wrong (though many do it right, too.) Women tend to make their men too introspective. Men sometimes make their women to blunt and straightforward...but often, this doesn't really take away from one's enjoyment. I know a number of books where I don't think the author really nailed the opposite sex...but I still really like the books just fine.