Re: Female characters

On May 31, 6:32 pm, Karin Almehed <putamnerish...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-05-30, Catja Pafort <green_kni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So if your rule says 'women shall only do x' you need to look how women
are subverting those laws. Unless the society is an extremely oppressive
one, it's likely that the boundaries are challenged all the time.

From both sides.

Of course but the question wasn't about writing boys/men which I do
all the time.
I've never really thought about it as being any different from writing
women.
Given that some people have assumed from my books that I'm male - I
can only assume that
one's own gender isn't actually that important; the process is the
same whether you are writing women or men.

Nicky

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