: Re: Is it frustrating not to know the narrator's gender? I have written a 1st person piece and reading it I realize it's very difficult to tell if the narrator is male or female. There are one

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My response would have to be that the narrator's gender is irrelevant unless you choose to make it relevant. I would say, in addition to that, that if you do choose to make the gender of the narrator relevant, that you should decide early in your writing whether you want to make it clear or hide it from your reader.

It can be a very powerful effect to cause the reader to realize they had been making a false assumption throughout your entire story. The one warning I would give you is to not let it overshadow other ideas or plot twists that you want the reader to discover. Depending on how jarring you make such a realization for the reader, it could have a positive or negative effect on the rest of your story.

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