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All other things being equal, yes. Could a great author make it work? probably. Would I recommend it? No. It's hard to say more without knowing the context, and why you'd want to do this.

Writers have responded to this challenge in many different ways over the years. The current common practice is to provide enough of the language pattern for flavor, and then render largely in standard …

It sounds like an interesting idea. Usually with something of this sort, there's no answer possible based just on the concept, it's all about the execution. I don't think there's necessarily anything …

I'm not theoretically opposed to a white author writing a black protagonist, but I've rarely seen it done well, and often seen it done badly, even by people of good will and intentions. … It might be worth taking the time to ask yourself why you're choosing a protagonist so far outside your own experience. …

Even these examples, however, are more properly hero-to-antihero transitions, where the ambiguous figure retains the role of protagonist. …

Because it's such a dramatic moment, it feels like a wasted opportunity to leave it entirely "off-camera." But it doesn't necessarily make sense to start your story there if the main action is going t …

The same is true for the --much less likeable --protagonist of Woody Allen's Match Point. …