Main Characters, poll Options

[emberfly]

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.

[mipadi]

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.

[synapse]

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.

Does this suggest you know some?