Usually when I am assigned to write stories for creative writing or English, I always make the main character female. Why? I have no idea.

I have created a poll. Is your main character usually a male or female?

This can apply to regular sentences, too. In my school, instead of defining vocabulary or key terms, we sometimes have to use those words in a sentence. My sentences usually have a feminine subject.

my main character was a guy probably 98% of the time. if it wasn't a guy, it was usually a dog as the subject. even now when we make up sentences for my italian class my teacher routinely comments that i need to use women subjects so i can practice forming sentences in the feminine.

Oddly enough, whenever it's for school, my main character is a guy. Whenever I'm writing a story just for fun, though, it's always a girl.

Mine's always a guy. I always feel like female leads have to have some sort of silly, irritating problems. That's why I can't watch TV shows revolving around a woman character, either. Maybe it's just because I haven't read enough books with tough broads as main characters to balance out the emotional ones...I don't know.

I never really thought about it, but most of my writing has male main characters. I think it's most due to a few reasons: (1) I'm a guy, and you should write what you know, and I don't know much about being a girl; (b) most of the situations that drove the plot were things that guys typically found themselves in; and (iii) a lot of my characters were loosely based on myself or other people around me that I knew well. That's not to say I've never had a female lead, but I guess it's rare.

But I think if I had a female lead, my writing would just ring hollow, because I don't know exactly what women think or feel about some situations, or what they worry about most of the time, etc.

I'm a girl and normally have guy characters. Females just irritate me ._.

Does this suggest you know some?

As retro as it sounds, my protagonist always turns out to be a male. Why? Maybe because I just think it's cliché for a heroine to be the lead role. I mean they're bad ass and all, but I have had enough heroine experiences in horror movies.

Mine are always male. Not really sure why. lol

Pretty much always female. And I almost always wrote from personal experience (a lot of it was made up though, but based on true events), so it makes sense to do it from a girl's perspective. I always feel like I'm lying to someone when I write about a dude.