05-02-2017, 01:55 AM
(05-01-2017, 04:02 AM)just mercedes Wrote: @Teagan - I've really enjoyed your poems- but have a confession. I thought you were a woman. The name threw me I guess. Assumption. Doh. I thought - Now there's a strong woman. Never questioned it until I read the 'he' in this poem.Hello just mercedes,
Easy assumption to make. I fall into the same thing regularly. I also too easily assume the author and the narrator are the same person, which is usually true, but not always. For myself, I think it helps my writing to sometimes use a Narrator of different gender. For the record, I am male, my current avatar is genuine, and I am complemented to be thought, based on my writing, to be a strong woman.
And thank you for the freedom you have given me this NaPo season. Each day when I log on to get the new prompt, I see your poem, already posted, which blows the doors off. You set the bar so high I feel free to run under it in any direction I want.
T