December CSR Discussion Day: Mr & Mister Danvers: Initiation by LJCC
First, to all who celebrate, Merry Christmas!! Second, did you get a chance to read this month's CSR? I figure anyone who isn't celebrating, or who needs a break from celebrating, could definitely enjoy LJCC's story Mr & Mister Danvers: Initiation. Make sure you leave a comment below, but first... enjoy this interview!Ā
Do you eat your fruits and vegetables?
Yes, fruits and vegetables are essential to life. Plus Iām in my late 30s now, if I donāt eat my fruits and veggies, my doctor says Iām going to die. Why though? I donāt know. Iām guessing he just wants to scare me like I was still that kid who goes to his office begging for a lollipop.
Though I hate okra and eggplant/aubergine.
Anything slimy and long makes me gag (pun intended.)
If you were an animal, what would you be?
Iāve always been a cat. And I have the temper of a cat. If youāre always around in my zone 24/7, Iām going to get sick of you. However, if you donāt talk to me for a day...Iāll be following you around, and pestering you for no reason until you love me, and then I get sick of you.
Itās an endless cycle.
Iām a monster.
What do you like to do when youāre not writing?
Sleep. I sleep like a log and around 8-10 hours whenever I can. Then sleep for around 2-5 hours in my work days. I donāt know why Iām still alive at this point in my life.
Also, I play classical piano on the side.
I also studied culinary so I can cook. Iām a lazy cook, but when I cookā¦no one dies from food poisoning, thatās guaranteed at least.
Whatās one location youād love to go to research for a story?
Tazmania, a city in Australia. I have an idea in mind for a story but itās in the backburner for now. I think it would be romantic to watch my date get killed by a blue-ringed octopus native to Australia or get bitten by a red back spider. Makes up for good plot.
If you could give advice to yourself when you first started writing, what would it be?
Iād tell my 15-year-old self:
Youāre a shit writer. Everything you write is shit. Youāre nobody. Youāre no one. No one wants to read your story. No one wants to buy your book. Get it in your head that youāre nothing special. The characters you write are the ones who are special and needs your every frigging time and devotion to be honest and truthful to their versions of their existence. Donāt piss this off by feeling youāre the man. Youāre not. Yes, your audience will read your character, not because you wrote itā¦but because theyāre authentic and they could relate. Donāt you dare cry. Stop it. STOP IT! GO now. Start writing, you piece of shit.
What drew you to writing a spy thriller?
Majority of the spy thrillers Iāve read didnāt have any gay lead. So I thought, we need a protagonist for the gays. I want a gay James Bond. Then I proceeded to create the most expensive gay escort who turns out to be a spy for Britain, you know for the steamy sex scenes and pew-pew-pew gun show. Cause why not? Even I would sell my lung to sleep with Greg.
Did you get the idea for Greg Danvers first or the plot for Mr & Mister Danvers: Initiation?
The beginning of the story and the ending were the things that came first. All I needed was to write the meat in between the story. It was very complicated because I had to align everything I wrote to the ending of the story, with how everything would lead to the end. The dates and the timeline were especially a pain to plot. Any question I had with my own story regarding the timeline, I had to change itā¦which may or may not connect to other things in the story. So it was a constant back and forth of editing and double checking things.
Do you have a favorite line or scene in the story?
Episode 11, Thistlebaumās Bridge, the torture scene and the fight scene at the dark empty road. I was writing about the satisfying thrill of hitting a man, and it was an evil anti-hero moment that made me giggle.
āYou see, thereās this satisfying thrill of hitting a manāa man whoād initially wanted to attack you and was down on his knees praying for mercy.ā
And this moment of realization.
āWhy did they have to awaken this side of me? Did they want to die? I certainly would want to kill them now.ā
Also, the sex scene on Episode 4, The Quid.
āSeconds later, he was haunched on the bed, positioning his friable arsehole above my stick. The sound was a grunt, a grunting explained by a mixture of being whacked by a fist and a flicking of his fun-sized nipple. He whimpered as I entered him. "That fucking bastard gets what he deservesāoh shit, oh my god."ā
It was particularly funny to me that theyāre having raunchy sex while Gregās partner was having a soliloquy, unloading his fatherās issues on the man who was boning him. Thatās when I realise that sex scenes donāt have to be all too serious.
How close is a sequel to being posted for your readers?
The second book, Mr. & Mister Danvers: The Molfar Project is far from finished. Itās currently at 40k words, and I imagine that story to be around 200k+. I stopped writing it for now.
I was at impasse because I had fallen in love with one of my characters whom I know will inevitably suffer in the end. And I was like, will it happen or will it not? Should it happen or should it not happen?
So I took a break and will be resuming writing it next year. I really want the quality of the story to be highly polished so I wonāt post it until Iām comfortable enough that itās reached that level of standard Iāve given myself.
Do you want to share something about your new or upcoming works for readers?
The novel Iām writing for now, to take a momentary break from the spy-thriller, is a romantic-comedy/slice-of-life drama. Itās about a Brazilian hunk, Klebber Toledo, and an American dreamboat Dennis Ellison who met on a dating app, Tinge, where they had no ideaĀ COVID-19Ā would turn their spur-of-the-moment trip to Costa Rica into a months-long adventure.
I based this story from a Netflix special of the same name, which features a Present Tense format with the documentary interview, and a 3rd person narration as the bulk of the story. After watching that Netflix documentary, I was like, āI wonder what would happen if Khani and Matt were gay (the Netflix leads).ā So Klebber and Dennis were incepted to fill in those roles for the novel.
Iāve already posted the first chapter, https://gayauthors.org/story/ljcc/the-longest-third-date/1
Itās the teaser interview and so far, I really like how it has turned out.
Iāll post the full story probably early next year.Ā
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