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Originally Posted by Cheshire Cat  How would you have figured out the transvestite without physically examining him/her?
Can you give an example of a 1st person or 3rd person narrative that would be typical of a male or female writer? Really great writers should be able to easily fool their readers, I think. |
The transvestite was Filipino and her english was textbook english, "where is the milk located" etc. So it wasn't easy to figure out by her way of talking. She had a fairly male face, and with facial stubble, and a male body shape of course. (shoulders, hips etc) So if you did examine, it would be easy to figure out..
I wouldn't be able to give an example with 1st or 3rd person actually. I'm more of a non-fiction reader than fiction, I have trouble concentrating when reading fiction sometimes for some reason, (I still read a bit, Douglas Coupland, Nick Hornby) but i just guessed it would be easier to write about the other gender from 3rd person than 1st person..
I think some writers can write mainly about things they're familiar with by their own experiences though, and still be good writers, I'd think. (going from song-writers, and also film writers)