Dick for a Day / Jane for a Day writing/revising exercise
Start with a piece of writing that you have already finished
(or tried to finish) and re-imagine it from the point of view of an opposite
gender. If
it is a first person speaker, the gender and name may change. You can invent
an “alter ego” voice here.
If it is a third-person point of view, imagine either how an author of another
gender would alter the voice and details etc., or how the main character would
be in another gender. If it is an omniscient voice with no particular gender
inflection, switch the gender of the main character.
This exercise applies best to works in which gender and sex/sexuality are already important.