Boy narrators
Comment:
Hi, Mrs. Reynolds-Naylor!
Have you ever written a book where a boy narrates it? if so, how hard was it and how did you do it? I’m a writer who is female and wants to write a book in a boy’s point of view because I want both boys and girls to read my novels.
Phyllis replied:
I’d have to go over my whole library to see how many, but I know that I wrote a picture book with a boy narrator, All Because I’m Older; the four books of my Shiloh Series–about a middle-school boy, and a book narrated by a high school boy The Year of the Gopher. You simply have to morph into the sex you’re writing about–think and feel and talk and walk and act the way your character would act. Think of yourself as an actor onstage. Acting and writing are so similar.
Posted on: March 22, 2021