My impulse is to write for an audience of women, but I'm trying extremely hard not to make this work exclusively targeted to female readers. For now, I'm really just following the story and not focusing on the voice. Like I said before, I'm just vomiting the words out, and the voice and the flow and pretty much everything else is something I'll have to deal with in the second draft stage.
However, the more I think about it, the more I'd like to be able to have this book be an intelligent read for all those male friends I admire so much, and who love to read my (non-fiction) work. I'm a very political person, a very socially-conscious person, and while I do tend to write for an audience of women, some of my biggest fans are men.
I'd like my novel to pertain to those readers too. I think my work of fiction is, while unlikely to be political in nature, very likely to be a social commentary. To be a story that reaches across the gender boundaries. Or at least I'd like it to be.
Can't fake voice. And maybe, can't even choose your reader. But maybe, just maybe, those male readers will choose me.
That's the goal.
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