I've written female characters in both fanfic and original fiction. In my earlier days, it's probably fair to say a healthy majority of my characters were female. But despite being a girl, I just couldn't immerse myself in them. Now that I'm older, as I said, I've given up beating myself over the head with it and accepted this is what I like to do, and try to be better at the guys. I will say my male characters are probably idealized to an extent, but I think that would happen if I wrote females, too. It's hard to create a truly repulsive main POV character.
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I've written female characters in both fanfic and original fiction. In my earlier days, it's probably fair to say a healthy majority of my characters were female. But despite being a girl, I just couldn't immerse myself in them. Now that I'm older, as I said, I've given up beating myself over the head with it and accepted this is what I like to do, and try to be better at the guys. I will say my male characters are probably idealized to an extent, but I think that would happen if I wrote females, too. It's hard to create a truly repulsive main POV character.