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Writing for a Cast of Characters of the Opposite Gender

by brookeseggleston@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2015 | Blog

Writing for a cast characters of the opposite gender is no easy task. But I enjoyed the five years it took to get to know and create the main men in my story. Here is a little snippet about the three main males you will get to know in my Fantasy Series: As you can see, in my newly released fantasy novel Treefell: Legend of the Wood, there are three main characters- and they’re all male. There are more main characters in the novel, and yep, you guessed it- they too are male. In this first book in the series, the gist of the characters are male. So, why did I do it? Why did I make my cast mostly guys? How did I write for a cast that is mostly men, varying in ages from sixteen to eighty-six? Why is the story’s voice taken from the standpoint of an eight-teen year old guy, if I’m a twenty-five year old gal? Does having a mostly male cast limit the interest of female readers? And sheesh! where are all the women in this novel already?! I know you must be asking these questions and many more, but I’ll go through each, and any else you wish to ask me. Why Did I Write a Novel with a Predominantly Male Cast? : Well, not unlike many of you fellow writers out there, I too found that writing for even one character of the opposite sex was a challenge. So why did I do three? (and then some?!) When I first began writing this story, I thought about my audience, which, at the time, was my brother and...