The theme, which I suspect was always there without my knowing it, becomes clear as the story develops, and the title comes to me once I know the theme.
Sometimes the main characters don’t show up until later. Often enough, I don’t know which of the people in my let’s-take-it-from-here sketch will become the main characters. Eventually the bits and pieces come together. As I’ve said elsewhere, I take a situation as my point of departure and build out from there in both directions, but never in a straight line. I don’t really, of course, but I almost always continue in the same vein once I’ve typed a few sentences. I seem to know all that instinctively when I start to write. How do you make the important choices when it comes to writing your stories? Point of View? Voice? Theme? Title?
Now I feel responsible for global warming.) Thin air? Hey, I just realized my talent for pulling hot air out of thin air turned me into an author! (Crap. Where does your inspiration come from for your books?ĭamned if I know. I wasn’t there to see their reactions, but they all emailed me their congratulations. (A revised version of “Val” recently became available in my Dark Horror anthology from Silver Publishing.) The first person to learn about my was a distribution list of friends because my boyfriend wasn’t at home when I got the news. I was asked to submit my first two publications, by a graduate student who was looking for material to use in a project for her degree in bookbinding and an online friend who was putting together a gay vampire anthology. I posted some pieces on various Internet sites, and people wrote to say they liked them. Not to be a writer – I just wanted to write. I’ve wanted to write since before I can remember.
How did you get started in writing? What made you decide to submit your first story and what was your experience with that? Who was the first person you told when you got your first contract? What was their reaction? His work appears regularly in Wilde Oats and GayFlashFiction online magazines. Though most of his stories are romances, few of them would be called traditional romance. He returned to his childhood passion of writing at age sixty, and ever since he has churned out works in a variety of M/M genres: poetry, short and novel-length fiction, humor, essays, etc. He has lived about one-quarter of his life in French-speaking countries. Anel Viz, born and raised in New York City, currently resides in the Midwest, where he has taught at the same small liberal arts college for over thirty years.
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