LGBTQ Writer interview with Maura Lee Bee

“Why create stock characters when you can create this rich world in which your characters live and have it be as much like real world as possible?”

As humans we are on a never ending quest to relate to each other. It’s one of our best universal qualities. Sympathy. Empathy. Walk a mile in their shoes. We have words for all of it. It is this unyielding empathy that makes literature, and the characters in the stories that we tell, so important. When we relate to a character on the page, we may open up more to characters like that in our lives. We may even open up more to parts of ourselves that we previously shied away from. It is with this idea in mind that today’s guest, Maura Lee Bee, writes. Her characters are often atypical, which is exactly why we should take the time to get to know them.

“I didn’t necessarily have the tools to navigate that [at that age], but reading Patricia McCormick helped me become more empathetic of the situation, and helped me reach out to my friends and communicate in a more effective way.”

“I aim to write very slice of life fiction that, if someone is reading this that is going through something, it might help them overcome that situation or better understand it.”