Is your protagonist male or female?

by Adrian Sroka
8th February 2014

I wonder if most protagonists are the same sex as the author.

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My protagonist's voice is my own pretty much, so she has to be female.

I am interested in writing differently in future books though :)

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Debbie Ellen
09/02/2014

Not only the same sex, but roughly the same age....

I am 17 and in the past two novels, it is a teenager of 16 & 17. It is easy to write so, because you tend to link your life with the protagonist's life. I concocted a mixture of my life's ups and downs in my story.... :D

But transcending from habit, I am trying out a female protagonist in my next book.... :D :D

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