Writing Which is more difficult (subjective): narrating the MC according to the author's gender or narrating the MC different from the author's gender?

[Eldoria]

Which is more difficult (subjective): narrating a protagonist according to the author's gender or narrating a protagonist different from the author's gender?

 

[Kurayami]

Narrating a protagonist different from your gender will be harder, since it goes against your lived experiences.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

That's like asking if it's harder for a right-handed person to write right-handed or left handed.

 

[melchi]

Try writing a character not sure about their gender...

Do not recommend

 

[greyblob]

in ML novels I can instantely tell if it's written by a man or a woman

 

[CharlesEBrown]

It depends on what you're trying to do - I've attempted both, and, honestly, each has its challenges (even more interesting is having a first person narrator who was your gender but now is not and is trying to come to grips with this).
In general, its easiest to write what you know, and that, in at least 9 cases out of ten is the same gender as the author - but this is not always the case, depending on the story (and, possibly, if the author has gender issues of their own already).

 

[blushiemagic]

Different is obviously harder, but thankfully there's a way around this:

You can have every single one of your MC's share genders with you if you're genderfluid.

 

[ElijahRyne]

Which is more difficult (subjective): narrating a protagonist according to the author's gender or narrating a protagonist different from the author's gender?

Different is harder, but probably because 7/10ths of the stuff I read has a male protag rather than a female one. And I have little to no practice writing a female mc.

 

[DarkCrinkle]

I have to constantly rethink perspectives if I write MCs opposite of my gender.

Idk if it's true or not, but Female writers have tendency to write male protagonist character more emotional than actual. So yeeee def harder.