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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Why I Love Rhett and Scarlett

My favorite fictional couple has to be Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara.  Folks have you read Mitchell's description of the man?  He's everything I love!  He has broad schoulders, dark hair, and swarthy, bronzed skin.  Be still my heart!  And get this, he's a bad boy.  What is it about bad boys that takes a girl's breath away?  Most importantly, though, he loves Scarlett to distraction.

In some ways I don't think Scarlett deserves her reputation as a bad girl.  Come on.  Would you rather she have let a deserter burn Tara to the ground?  Would you rather she have let Jonas Wilkerson take Tara away?  Still, I must admit she did some awful things.  Taking your sister's fiance is kinda bad, and so is selling cheap lumber for good.  (I have a book coming out soon titled One Woman Man, and in that book my heroine loses her fiance to her sister.) 

My heroines don't have to be perfect though.  I like to read and write about flawed characters which is why I like Scarlett and Rhett.  After all, perfection is boring.