: Re: Should I make the gender of the narrator more obvious? This is the opening of a short story I'm writing: 1996 was the year I became obsessed with animal suicide. I guess you can say

@Debbie451

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I think the gender and sexual ambiguity only makes this story that much more compelling. I've written similarly vague characters in the past and consider it not only more difficult to hide a character's gender throughout the narrative but also a pretty big compliment. You can even use this technique to conduct your own mini-experiment of people's perceptions of differences between male and female voice--and potentially use that to strengthen your writing otherwise.

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