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30 Days of Fandom Meme: Day 6
Aug. 13th, 2015 03:08 pm6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?
I don't think I have a strong preference either way. My fanfic output was almost evenly matched until I fell down the Captain America rabbit hole, which totally threw the balance toward male POV, while my original fiction is mostly in female POV.
Actually, now that I think about it, I think my original fiction is entirely in female POV. When I was writing the coffee shop books I only belatedly realized that the done thing in romance these days is to switch between the hero and heroine's POV, which I think that sucks some of the tension out of the story. Not only is it immediately obvious who the endgame pairing is, but there's absolutely no mystery about how they feel about each other, either.
Romance novels being romance novels, there's never going to be that much mystery, but I think having at least a whiff of it makes for more compelling reading.
I don't think I have a strong preference either way. My fanfic output was almost evenly matched until I fell down the Captain America rabbit hole, which totally threw the balance toward male POV, while my original fiction is mostly in female POV.
Actually, now that I think about it, I think my original fiction is entirely in female POV. When I was writing the coffee shop books I only belatedly realized that the done thing in romance these days is to switch between the hero and heroine's POV, which I think that sucks some of the tension out of the story. Not only is it immediately obvious who the endgame pairing is, but there's absolutely no mystery about how they feel about each other, either.
Romance novels being romance novels, there's never going to be that much mystery, but I think having at least a whiff of it makes for more compelling reading.
