Okay originally I was going to blog about awarding UWPs (Useless Whore Points) - which will have to wait - because I had an idea for this week’s blog post that actually deals with writing.   :smile: 

So. I was talking with Ames the other night via email and asked her how I redeem my hero because he’s a hit man. And she suggested that maybe he has to save the life of the heroine.

Right.

But. He saves her life in the first book, so for the second book, I can’t really have him saving her life all the time. That just gets old and makes the heroine look like a total wimpy sniveling annoying brat. Right?

So. I got to thinking about what the actual story was for book 2. It’s not that he’s a hit man anymore, I think. It’s how she’s dealing with the fact that he IS the hit man who killed her parents and now that she’s stuck with him, she is starting to have feelings for him. Not to mention grex (that’s great sex in shorthand and a total habit because when Best Good Friend and I talk about grex in work email, we have to make it something that Big Brother won’t flag. But I digress…).

So! I’m thinking the second book is about her internal conflict and how she comes to terms with the fact that yes, he is a hit man. And yes, he killed her parents. But deep down, he’s a good man who got pulled into a profession he hadn’t really ever intended on entering and now he’s sort of turned over a new leaf. Love of a good woman and all that horseshit. Not to mention that fabulous grex they’re having.

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Anyway. Tell me, dear readers (and writers), what do you think makes a bad guy turn good? Besides all that good woman stuff. And further, what makes a woman really want that bad guy? Aside from the whole bad guy image thingy.