My experience with the women’s intimate soul
In my latest novel “Toni Pendove — The Algorithm” (written in Italian up to now) Toni, the main character, is a powerful career emancipated woman.
Writing in a feminine way while listening to my feminine part was not easy, we men all have a more or less pronounced feminine part, but bringing it out to make a character act correctly was no small effort for me.
I thought it was enough to change the articles and little else, then rereading the novel I realized that the character spoke and reasoned like a male, that is, like me.
So I rewrote everything from scratch, but I wasn’t satisfied, it seemed to me that something was missing in the soul of Toni, and I understood that I had to refer to my intimate feminine part to make the character speak like a real woman with her feminine sensitivity and the determination of a woman in pursuing her goal (we men, on the other hand, are more inclined to make compromises).
I rewrote everything and, not satisfied, I also added another younger female character and completed Toni’s story: a successful woman who questions her actions and finds herself dealing with the complexity of current society and with difficult choices that require major life changes, a free woman who wants to redeem her sins and in the face of threats of conditioning and control from people chooses a different future, not just for herself, a modern hero who takes care of the “Sanctuary”, that of the entire human race.
The novel highlights how the different gender sensitivities complete the human being and female sensitivity is the one necessary to resolve the conflicts that bloodied the world. This is why I believe that women will save the world with their revolutionary nature and their propensity for the future.
I was lucky in my life, I met women who were able to understand me quickly and gently argue their beliefs; I thank them for always pushing me in the direction I wanted.
By writing about a woman I rediscovered my feminine component, overcame the loneliness one feels in front of the empty page before it takes on a soul and I managed to touch the soul strings of my readers overwhelmed by the vortex of emotions released by my novel.
How did I do it?
I didn’t even think I could do it and yet it was enough to let my feminine side emerge, annihilating the masculine one and everything became easier and I realized that sex and gender are not the same thing.
Link to the English article reported on Medium.
