Writer’s Voice

I just read a post over at DailyWritingTips about if a fiction writer should be allowed to write in a gender that he/she doesn’t generally identify him/herself to be a part of. 

W.T.F. (Maeve, the writer of A Writer Can be Anyone or Anything, agrees.  Perhaps a bit more diplomatically.)

First of all, I’m slightly annoyed at the fact at the implication that a writer should have to expose his/her gender when writing. 

Huh?

And then the idea that you can only write what you know.

The idea that you have to choose a gender to write is absolutely ludacris.

Again, W.T.F.