Laurie’s Comments (group member since Aug 19, 2012)

Laurie’s comments from the Q&A with Laurie R. King group.

The spectrum of human sexuality means that few of us write precisely the place we inhabit, no more than we limit ourselves to writing (for example) white women in their 50s with a graduate degree, living in a liberal community on the Pacific coast. We as writers explore constantly, trying on different faces and backgrounds in an attempt to find common ground with those inhabiting our stories. I wrote Kate as a lesbian because I couldn't imagine her otherwise, and I was fortunate that the GLBT community welcomed me in. I'd have been sad if they found the stories intrusive.

Seeing just the title of "How was Sherlock Born?" I had all these visions of his birth. In a furious lightning storm, in a flash from the brow of Zeus, left under a tree by a gypsy--but no, you're just talking about me.

More prosaically, then, I think it took a while for Holmes to become real in my own mind, since I was more focussed on Russell at first. But he began to grow on me as a person. He was older when I began writing him, but I am rapidly catching up on him, and he no longer seems to me very old. Grey-haired, perhaps, but hey, he's only in his sixties!

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