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reads to me like a guy in touch with his feminine side.......

That does not surprise me to be honest Esc, any thoughts on bow it can be made more macho

why make it macho.....both sexes talk and act the same these days

Maybe it is an age thing or a rural thing....but guys and gals do not think alike, at least where I am from.

Going back 40 years ago I remember watching my 19 year old wife walk down the isle. She was radiant, my thoughts were, however, nothing like what you have written.

This is forever, there is no backing out now, my hands are sweating, this is a lot of responsibility. This is a huge step, I am glad I am taking it. Where did she get that hat? I hope I don't screw up the responses to the minister. My God, she is beautiful, I am a lucky guy. Her hand is sweaty too.

Those thoughts in the span of, from the time she got to the front of the church until her dad left her side and sat down.

For a million dollars I could not describe her dress..The hat yes, the dress..it was white

so you can read peoples minds

Sorry Esc I agree with Pw, there is a difference sometimes between how women and men think, even if the line is blurry, there are still diifference, however it could be from the point of view of another women. Now there is something to think about.

And Thanks Plastic for your imput, having never been married and never been a man, I find it interesting to see how you felt and what you thought at this point on your wedding day. It has helpped me alot.

Did I write they think the same

Sorry Esc no that was me reading it wrong,, however I still believe that men and women for the majority act and talk differently.

Ok..but my thought was why try to make your work more macho when the male perspective came across to me in a very feminine way...from such a short piece I was intrigued by the juxtaposition of male an femminin approach...

Ah that's interesting, even though I have studied many books that use juxaposition in varying ways I never thought to see it in my own writing...hmmm I will have to see where this can lead.

Normally I write with a female protagonist but when I wrote this section it was suddenly from a male perspective, this would be around the middle of the story I think.

Carson mcullers was a master at this style of writing...she wrote I think in a beautiful open and femminin way with everything I could want from many different characters...I knew when I first read her work she was female and I reckon I would have thought this is a female author..why because for me it was so insightful...other authors like Susan sontag just never got there an I think sontag tried to make her work more masculine...
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I will work on this keeping it tinged witha feminine tone then and see what comes of it and I will have to check out Carson Mculler's work as well. Thanks Esc.

Is the female tone running through the work or have you mixed it up from chapter to chapter....I would like to read an example of this if there is any or other parts you may consider a bit to female in tone...

This is all I have wrote so far of this, but I am looking forward to seeing what it can become, I think it will be all from this main man's perspective (see I don't even have a character name yet) and hopefully I can keep portraying the male as overtly female. it is how I tend to write I come up with bits and bobs that I write down when they hit me and then I turn all those bits and pieces together into a whole and then develop it further until I have a full story and then do a major editing process of draft after draft, it just so happened that the only place I had to write this section out was on here.

The novel that I am currently on my final edit of switches in perspectives between a male and female protagonist though out, and knowing me I probably make him seem overtly female also, I can pm you an extract from that if you like Esc.

Look forward to reading it...

Have just emailed what I have wrote so far over. Not the whole story so far as that is around about 15,000 words and I'm still re-writing the interconnecting parts that are from the female protagonist. i'm working on the dreams, today as i have copies of them that are separate from the main body of the novel to see if they match up and if not, then making them match up. As by the time I'm finished I will have written four full shorter stories; Rosemary's tale that happens in the present, Henry's tale that happens in the past, Rosalina's tale through her journal and finally Rosalina and Henry's letters. in the end these will all meld together into one whole novel.

I have a funny writing process hahaha.

The narrative in the first section was how I thought it should read with a tone of male or female bearing no influence on my perception as to the gender of the piece..it was in the dialogue of Henry with and then thinking about Rosetta that the mood changed.Henry being the dominant force here was not what I expected in that the charachter came across as formal but trying to break free from this and I was left thinking like the narrative to be neither male or female in tone...I liked it without the strong tone I was expecting and I think I should say that my use of the word tone was on a particular with your definition or meaning....I think you covered the narrative and thinking of Henry in a style that was not overtly femminin...I did enjoy that

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Been wondering how Henry's part of story would be received as it has not been read by anyone until now, thank you for taking the time and your comments.