maestrowork said:
I'm not in love with my heroes (Gawd, no) but definitely a few of my heroines -- I was insanely in love with Kate in The Pacific Between, and am currently in love with Grace (my WIP). For one thing, my protagonists are usually very flawed. What is really important is that my READERS fall in love with them. I've heard a few telling me that they did... that's really a great thing to hear, as a writer.
Ray, I think you're cool.
It's good to see you over here in the Romance section. I also think it's cool that you love your heroines. Tri, nice to see you here, too. Thanks to both of you for providing us with some male POV here.
I am more like Cathy, a channeler of my characters, so I don't know if I can say exactly that I ever "fall in love" with my heroes, but I do LOVE them, and find them lovable -- but that could be my heroines spilling over. <G>
A character we create SHOULD be one that we could see ourselves falling for. Otherwise we may have done something wrong. (Uhhh, unless we're talking villian here. You might not want to love the villian. but the rest of this applies to villians as well: ) They should have both good points, and bad ones, things that both attract and annoy their opposite partner. Cause that's how we are, right? The people we love have traits that endear them to us, and also drive us INSANE. <G>
Susan G.