It took me a week after I created this blog to finally make a first entry. I did a lot of back and forth, thinking and over thinking about what words to commit to this blog. My first idea for the blog was for it to be a venue where I can pen down notes, plot ideas, character descriptions for the gay novel that I hope to write in the future. I also hope that— should it gain a following— it would be an avenue for discourse between me and the readers on how to go about writing the gay novel. I would give outlines and progress report and in turn readers can give me feedback—like a control group of sorts.
I decided that I want to write a gay novel after a rather a search for gay novels on Amazon.com let to an uninspired listing, most were cheesy explorations of gay life with cheesier double entendre titles and cover photos. Some were of the erotic version. None that really captured want I want to read.
There have been few novels with gay themes that have moved me chief among them is The Nightswimmer by Joseph Olshan which tackled the issues of longing and loss and how to cope with it with such deft of language and cadence that I find myself buying a copy at bookstores every time I see it. What I like about the book is that the story and its central themes move past the written page and into your life, making you question your own sense of longing for love lost and your life ahead.
Andre Aciman's Call Me By Your Name comes a close second to one of my favorite gay reads. Call Me By Your Name also talked about longing, sadness, finding love, losing it and moving forward
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The themes of the two books are the kinds of themes that I want to explore and hopefully this blog will be able to help me flesh out all the ideas brewing in my head.
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