tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248737169743522191.post7306925897572305756..comments2023-09-20T09:24:56.042-04:00Comments on Diary of an Indie Author: Hard TruthChristinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17901333545657112339noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248737169743522191.post-64566431313856394772013-11-07T19:14:21.049-05:002013-11-07T19:14:21.049-05:00Bad boys, to me, are guys who maybe committed some...Bad boys, to me, are guys who maybe committed some petty crime or other. Or their family has a bad reputation and they live up to it with their attitude or the way the dress. Maybe he rides a Harley or owns a dive bar. He sure as hell does *not* force his partner to have sexual intercourse, nor does he beat his partner into submission.<br /><br />The male lead in my book Fire Born is a reformed bad boy, in that he spent two years in a juvenile detention center for setting a house on fire when he was sixteen. He's also got a full sleeve tattoo on his right arm. But now he's all grown up, pushing 40, and is a career fireman who is engaged with his first child on the way. This is the kind of bad boy character I like to read about, the one who maybe has attitude and a shady past, but he is a decent guy deep down. But he never, ever, forces himself on a woman or strikes her in anger.Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17901333545657112339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2248737169743522191.post-56322673355689252022013-11-05T11:56:34.729-05:002013-11-05T11:56:34.729-05:00I'm currently actually writing about a girl wh...I'm currently actually writing about a girl who was raped several times and has always been used for sex, but the entire premise is about her learning it's okay to be sexual with someone she loves and still be angry about what happened to her. <br /><br />I don't understand the draw of the "reformed bad boy" who abuses. There is no reform to abuse. If he does it once, he will do it again. End of story. There is no gray area there. The belief that he's changed is what gets women killed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com