I tend towards mainly female characters, because I am female; I know, generally, how a girl would react to certain situations.
I did make one male character, partly because I just wanted to see if I could pull it off. So far, I think I have; the main problem I have with him is that I have fairly little knowledge of how a guy would react to certain situations. I know how a girl would probably react to the same situation - but guys would react differently, I think. The problem is: differently, how?
For the most part, I try and work it out on a case-by-case basis and I go with how my character would react rather than how their gender would react, and that goes for both genders, not just my male character.
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