Apologize for resurrecting this thread that is a few months old. Been away from Lush for a little bit and just saw this.
I am a straight male, and did choose to try and write a couple of stories from a first person female point of view, so wanted to chime in on this. Based on comments and ratings I think it was fairly well received. Personally, I was happy with how the story turned out. https://
If I'm writing fiction I don't want to write me, then it just becomes auto biographical. I want to try and get into the head of someone else and try to figure out what motivates them, what is their thought process, and what might bring them to or into a certain situation.
I will never really know how successful or how realistic I was in getting inside the mind of someone of the opposite sex, but half the fun is trying. Writing fiction is about taking all your life experiences, observed and experienced, throwing them in a blender and projecting it into something new.