New gay/lesbian fantasy writer

Hello everyone,

I just discovered this community. I'm here looking to meet some fellow writers as I get more deeply into the craft.

I have adored writing since I was 8 years old, and have always dreamed of writing novels. I finally decided to sit down and focus on it this fall, setting a goal of 1000 words a day. On New Year's Eve, I finished my first book! It's a 73k fantasy novel with multi-character viewpoints. My work is heavy on gay content, mostly gay male characters but with with a mix of all sexualities, and some gender-bending elements.

I recently discovered Ellen Kushner, a fellow lesbian writer of gay male fiction. I am currently enjoying Swordpoint, an excellent novel!

By the time I finished my first novel, the sequel was already forming in my mind, and I started it the next day. I'm about 50,000 words into it now and progressing nicely.

Now that I am finally writing consistantly, I have a strong desire to learn more of the craft, to discuss its elements with fellow writers and to further hone my own voice. Ultimately it would be wonderful to find some writing buddies with whom I can exchange feedback and ideas on our current works.

I look forward to exploring this board more!

Cheers,
GS Gayle

CoraKane said:

I tend to write with multi character viewpoints as well and have chapters that switch from the viewpoints of one character to another. I find it really challenging because of the different personalities that all my characters have. When you write from the different view points, is it third person limited for that sole character that you're focusing on at the moment or is it third person omniscient? Do you do individual chapters for each of the characters viewpoint or do you switch characters in a chapter? Just curious.

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In my current novel I'm doing third-person from a sole character, switching characters every chapter. I have fun with it because all the knowledge is from that character's point of view, so sometimes that character believes something we know to be wrong based on another character's knowledge. I try to overlap them enough so we get to know all the characters well. I find it works well for me to emerge myself in one character's personality for the chapter.

The main challenge I find with that style is deciding which character to go to in teh next chapter, and to make sure I'm keeping consistance with who knows what.