Two Paths In The Woods
Or rather, two paths in Hollywood. I’m getting my start on The Greek (yeah, he’s listed as my WIP over there in the sidebar, and yeah, I HAD 17,000 words done, but I’m starting over.) and I’m all kinds-a conflicted. I have the characters. Totally. Completely. They’re so alive and wonderful and I have mad hero love and my heroine is completely charming to me as well. The problem?
I have no plot. Well, I kind of do. But I’m waffling a bit. Keep it totally simple and see if I have enough tension? Or throw in a healthy dash of revenge? This may be one of those points where I need to trust my characters to make their own drama and not throw manufactured conflict at them…but…oooh…revenge….
Any of you ever have this problem? What do you think of revenge? And does anyone have any chocolate ice cream on hand??
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Revenge makes good motivation but it depends on how far the hero takes the revenge. And often, I find, the hero jumps to conclusions about the heroine with very little facts to back it up. So, I need to be convinced that an intelligent person would believe that the other character had done something bad.
Anne, I am once again resolved (ha!) that I WILL be keeping it simple. No revenge. So now…I wonder how dark I can go with this hero…