If you have been following my posts, you would be familiar with my insistence that you only write what is familiar to you when you pick a genre, a theme or a backdrop to your story. I am not interested in all the silly word-for-word or ' lurus bendul ' argument that people will come up with, such as 'but I want to write about an immortal. Does this mean I can't because I am mortal." [ Click this link to watch the video that mirrors this post.] Even the idea that a female writer should only write about female protagonists and a male writer should write about a male protagonists makes little sense. This is because in this day and age, we now know that physical gender has nothing to do with courage, intelligence or emotion. It matters more that you get their attitude, temperament and motivation properly aligned. The only danger of writing about a character whose gender, race or religion is different from ours is our tendency to fall back on biases and assumptions.
An indigenous writer who writes in English.