A thought
How to write a woman:
Begin with a man
Set the world against him
Sharpen his edges
Turn them inward
When he's finished his growth
And is weary and hardened
Slash his age in two
Cover him in lace and velvet
Change the pronouns
Set her to start her story
Why did this come to me? I have a genderbent Saguru story waiting. She's recognizably Saguru (she's the same Saguru as from Reciprocal), but she has an edge and a deep-rooted sense of being fed the fuck up that a male Saguru can't. I have no idea how much of that comes across in Reciprocal, but it's unmistakably there in my sense of her.
Begin with a man
Set the world against him
Sharpen his edges
Turn them inward
When he's finished his growth
And is weary and hardened
Slash his age in two
Cover him in lace and velvet
Change the pronouns
Set her to start her story
Why did this come to me? I have a genderbent Saguru story waiting. She's recognizably Saguru (she's the same Saguru as from Reciprocal), but she has an edge and a deep-rooted sense of being fed the fuck up that a male Saguru can't. I have no idea how much of that comes across in Reciprocal, but it's unmistakably there in my sense of her.