[quote=@Dagger] Spin off question (I'll update the original post too): What are obstacles you have to writing characters who are a different gender/race/sexuality/any other quality as yourself? I notice a lot of people in the 1x1 section seem to stick to writing as their own gender and want to open this thread up further for discussion and advice for anyone who might want to branch out from their niche, whatever that may be. [/quote] To be quite honest most of the time its simply because Im not interested. Of course I dont want to do a stupid self insert but at the same time if a character is too different to myself I just cannot relate and hence cant write em