/lit/ - Literature

How do you guys keep track of your characters in your prose when you have multiple male/female characters? For example, I'm writing a short story right now that is from the perspective of two shifting POVs that aren't always obvious, and I'm often writing "He...", "He..." etc. etc. while they talk to and think of each other, so I use their names a lot to differentiate but sometimes it's just hard. Do I just totally ignore it and leave it up to the reader to figure out? I don't mind doing that but is that fair?

>>20284693
>artistic talent is secondary to their identity
That's kind of the point with confessionalism. I like Bukowski but it's the same school responsible for Insta-poets like Rupi.
>>20288035
He wasn't a fraud and I really like the poems he wrote dealing with his life post-fame/success. It's too bad most of his output is collected into cash grabs by Ecco and divorced from any signifiers that let the reader know at what point he wrote a given poem. (Some collections are good though, don't get me wrong).

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>>19789742

>>19719552
I remade it.