I think it's fairly common for writers to cross-dress. Any dramatist does
it on a daily basis.
I wrote a novella, and at least one other story, years ago with a first
person female narrator. Only one female-voice poem--I rarely write in
character, but that's what happened. What made it female was the point of
view, not the style. We're all doomed to using more or less the same language.
>>I do see that
>>women tend to be more rounded in their painting, the only time a man uses
>>curves is when he draws a female nude.
>
>I can think of so many exceptions to this off the top of my head - Miro,
>Chagall, Klee etc and so on - it's simply not true.
>
>As Joe said, there's no simple binary. Re: political correctness: one of
>the earliest plays by my husband, Daniel Keene, was a series of
>monologues by women called The Snake Pit. One woman's group erroneously
>thought a play which so clearly dramatised and imagined "woman's" voice
>could not have been written by a man - clearly the play was written by
>Danielle - and did a reading from which the writer was excluded because
>of his sex, to I might add his fury.
>
>Best
>
>Alison
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