I'm the same way, re: defaulting to male characters -- in fanfic, I can understand it since most of the characters I like are male to begin with or at least read as male to me. In original fic, I think maybe part of it is an overhang from fanfic -- I'm used to the idea of one female character surrounded by a group of male characters so I default toward that.
The other part is, I think, maybe a tendency to want to show that a woman can write male characters and have them be guys rather than the stereotypical idea that women turn all male characters into women (though, I did literally do that with Brawl).
And...at the moment, I have nothing more to add except that my head is full of sleep and thanks for the heads up on the italics. 8)
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Date: 2008-08-04 11:17 am (UTC)The other part is, I think, maybe a tendency to want to show that a woman can write male characters and have them be guys rather than the stereotypical idea that women turn all male characters into women (though, I did literally do that with Brawl).
And...at the moment, I have nothing more to add except that my head is full of sleep and thanks for the heads up on the italics. 8)