Stephen’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2008)

Stephen’s comments from the Guilty Pleasures group.

Does it make sense to drop this one and join the QueerReaders group? https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

They're a lot more active and could probably benefit from a few of the insightful readers who are members here.

Susan wrote: "Ummm (she sidles back in)...Stephen? Where's the "Writings tab"?"

At the top of every page there's a horizontal bar of action words HOME, MY BOOKS, FIND BOOKS etc. Under EXPLORE there is a submenu with Writing as one of the tabs.

Writers can post their works under their profile and others can read and comment.

You can see mine at http://www.goodreads.com/story/list/9...

Susan wrote: "...so I wrote one myself: Perfect Score..."

Looks intrigueing Susan. How bout posting a teaser chapter under the Writings tab?

Not sure that it'd qualify as popular but the Lyrics of Romaovsky & Phillips are great in a gay folk pop sorta way.

BTW how bout songs that are meant to be sung by women but get subversive when sung by men (or vice versa) Check out the lyrics to Sondheim's "I Never do Anything Twice" It starts out ...

When I was young and simple
I don't recall the date
I met a handsome captain of the guard
He visited my chambers one evening rather late
In tandem with a husky Saint Bernard

At first I was astonished
And tears came to my eyes
But, later when I asked him to resume
He said, to my surprise
My dear, it isn't wise
Where love is concerned one must freshen the bloom

Once, yes, once for a lark
Twice, though, loses the spark
One must never deny it
But after you try it you vary the diet

Said my handsome young guard
Yes, I know, that it's hard
But no matter how nice
I never do anything twice

KD

I'm really suprised that the publishers that you've met are shocked. Women writing about gay male main characters is very common.

Some of my all time favorite gay reads were written by women.

Magic's Pawn/Magic's Promise/Magic's Price were written by Mercedes Lackey.

The Catch Trap was written by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

The Front Runner was written by Patricia Nell Warren.

My Gorgeous Life was written by Dame Edna Everage... No wait... just kidding about that last one, possums.

One of the most interesting things that I find about reading (and writing) is that you can explore ideas and personas that you can't explore in real life.

I've been working for a while on a novel and while my main character is meant to be a bit like me, I keep finding that my writing is hijacked by a secondary character who is unlike me but just plain fun to write about.

If you'd like check out the two chapters I've posted under my writings and let me know if you can tell which character I'm talking about... No, it's NOT the dog.