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true, that’s why it’d be such an interesting experiment. I feel like I write relatively gender-neutral characters but we’re all so seeped in our respective cultures’ gender markers that it’d be sure to trip me over my own subconscious biases and that would be valuable. 
 @6e9427cf @b2ab0244 @ebd90c48 

“it might mean that your gut reaction about where the plot needs to go will have to be carefully examined. Writers have reflexes, too!”

I’d most like to write a book as usual, then click a button and have every pronoun switch, and see how that affects the story. 
 How it starts: An interchange of dialogue, a nudge of interiority, a dash of action. Brushstrokes... 
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By the time I finish Draft 1, it really should be called Draft 10 :)
A push forward into a new scene, a retreat to add vital titbits to previous scenes, another push forward—and then an unstoppable rush as the end hoves into view.