Gooooaaaallll!!!!
The Sheikh, in all of his newfound glory, is in my editor’s inbox now. I hope she loves him as much as I do. He’s a very complex character, a man caught between his sense of honor and self-sacrifice, and intense feelings for a woman he feels he’s all wrong for. Of course, he hides all of that beneath a hardened exterior, but while he’s supremely alpha and supremely in control, he’s also quite damaged and scarred.
I love, love, love a scarred hero, either emotionally, physically or both, and I love seeing him embrace the redemptive power of love and ultimately letting go of those issues that have held him back in an emotional sense for so long.
What about you? What internal issues do you like to see a character struggle with? What makes you really root for them? And what issues do you like to give your hero and heroine?
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Yay, the sheikh! Well done you. Issues? I’m a fan of the scarred, tortured hero. He can’t be too tortured in MH sadly. I am also a fan of the arrogant hero brought low. Love it when he thinks he can get his way all the time and yet the heroine manages to get him to make compromises. I also like a bit of a wounded, vulnerable heroine too.
Funnily enough, I’m writing an arrogant hero right now. Boy he HATES the heroine getting one over on him…lol. 😉
Yeah! Love it when they need to get taken down a peg or two! My current hero, who shall be known from now on as The Greek, is definitely the kind of man who thinks he has it all figured out. Oh, little does he know…
Oooh I’m like Jackie – I love a scarred, tortured hero, especially one who hides it behind a delicious arrogance. Yay you on subbing your sheikh!!
Mhhmmm!! The Sheikh was a lot of fun to write for that very reason!
I like a bad boy – think Sawyer from Lost and you’re there already. :o)
Maisey – HOW DO YOU WRITE SO QUICKLY??
I am in awe! Is it no.4 you’re currently writing now?
Please tell me it gets easier to write well with speed once you’re contracted? I can’t imagine writing quickly enough to keep up with the pace. Do you set aside a certain number of hours each day to work, or aim for a particular daily wordcount?
I’m big on redemption themes so I love to see a hero who has screwed up so badly and then has to claw his way back from that.
Joanne, is is number four. In absolute fairness, books two and three were rewrites of MSs I did mored than a year ago. One good thing about long waits? Writing. Lots of writing. And the more you write, the faster you get. So I’ve just gotten a lot of experience.
Kelly, me too. I love a great redemption theme. 🙂
Well, you know I love redemptive love stories 🙂 And I love scarred heroes… emotionally and physically. I’ve written two physically scarred heroes and they were both challenging to write. You’ve got to balance the ‘tortured’ aspect against what can seem like an unattractive sense of self-pity! Congratulations on getting your sheikh out there!
Thanks! Here’s hoping my ed is a fan. I quite like him. 🙂 And you’re very right, it’s a fine line to walk, but I find a lot of things with character tend to be… 😀
Yay on the Sheikh! I’m sure your ed will share the love for him 🙂
Me, I agree with everyone else. I like a hero who is so embittered by the past it’s hard to see a way back for him — until the heroine enters his life, of course.
Oh yes, now THAT’S romance. *sigh*
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