Can A Romantic Hero/Heroine.....?
Copyright 1999 by Leigh Michaels
Time for a pop quiz. Get your pencil and as fast as you can (you get points for speed!) answer the following questions.
Can a romantic hero/heroine:
drive a pickup truck?
drive a garbage truck?
kiss someone besides the hero/heroine?
make love with someone other than the hero/heroine?
be a bank robber?
write a bad check?
write a series of bad checks?
be an unwed parent?
give a child up for adoption?
be a con artist?
kill someone?
steal from petty cash?
embezzle from his/her father's business?
kill an animal?
strike a spouse?
serve time in prison?
kidnap someone?
commit armed robbery?
desert a child?
have an abortion?
Scoring
If you finished in less than five minutes, reward yourself with two chocolate chip cookies (or other similar vice).
For each "YES!" award yourself one chocolate chip cookie.
For each "NO!" take away one chocolate chip cookie.
And if your answer to each question was, "IT DEPENDS," you get the whole bag of cookies and a break to drive to the store for another one.
When you get back, though, work through the list again. For each question, write a one-sentence explanation about what circumstances would make this particular action by a hero or a heroine possible, understandable, and sympathetic to a reader.
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