After reading so many books written by women with male main characters, I often wondered …how easy is it for a female author to write from a male’s perspective? Today, I am honored to have LM Preston stop by and provide some insight.
GIRL VS BOY: WHAT’s EASIER TO WRITE
Well, if you didn’t know it, I’m a female writer of young adult novels. My debut novel, Explorer X – Alpha’s main character was a male. A boy named Aadi that was fourteen years old is a stretch from a grown female writer that created him. For me though, writing a male was much more exciting than writing a female. My up coming book The Pack has a female, blind vigilante as the main character. Shamira was a lot harder for me to write than Aadi, simply because I take being female for granted.
Many authors I’ve met write …