him to the choices he makes. this assignment was to introduce a character from the inside, from the character’s own perspective.
a few days later the professor, a woman, read it aloud to the small class of a dozen girls and one other boy. not one of them guessed that it had not been written by a girl despite the professor’s suggestion that they should think about the person who wrote it. i considered that a success at the time. i had managed to think enough like a woman to convince a dozen girls that i was one of them.
today my first novel is in the final stages of production. one 