tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post1357580204116653778..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Engendering stories - N M BrowneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-27887695234814413772008-11-04T12:28:00.000+00:002008-11-04T12:28:00.000+00:00There was an interesting article in The Times abou...There was an interesting article in The Times about Anthony Horowitz, and how he's never until now written a female heroine - partly because, he says, he was so put off by the cruel girls he knew as a child. Hence his main characters have been overwhelmingly male (and even his new heroine, Scarlett, hardly seems the girly-girl type).<BR/><BR/>I do find this odd, actually; this tendency to define characters by their gender, as if that was the most important thing. All girls are not alike; neither are all boys. So what does it mean if we say someone has written a convincing male/female character?<BR/><BR/>I once read that there is more genetic variation within a 'race' (e.g. black/white) than can be found between them. I think the same is true of gender. And as a matter of interest, writing female characters comes to me far more easily than writing males. Boys - especially adolescents - are really difficult! They're an enigma to me, and I was one.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307045090887391553noreply@blogger.com