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My new story is taking shape. I’ve just written the first steamy scene. The Hero is a bad boy, or at least he thinks he is. He’s quick to aggression and will fight for his friends, but Lucienne, our heroine has been dealing with bad boys all her life; often drinking them under the table. She doesn’t believe he’s as bad as he makes out. He’s good looking, but he’d be attractive if he’d take things a little more easily. He doesn’t look good with a hangover.

So far I’ve written relationships I can imagine myself being in. With this new short I’m writing something different. Lucienne is the badass I’d often like to be. She’s quick witted and can put a man in his place, something she’s had a lot of practice at. She’s successful in her job, where she cares for kids. She knows how to sort out a bad humoured teenager just as much as ease a terrified and timid eight year old.

Lucienne is a badass and I’d always pick her to fight my corner, but I’ve been thinking about bad boys. I don’t think we like them because they don’t care for rules or because they’re quick to temper, that’s plain mindlessness. I think what makes a bad boy worth caring about is when they don’t stand for injustice and intolerance; when they care for something worth raising your fists for.

My badboy fights, he fights for his friends, even when his friends have been total numbnuts. He sometimes fights because he’s had too much to drink. A lot of the time badboys fight for the wrong reason, or do something stupid and reckless. And Lucienne has seen a lot of reckless working the wards in her hospital. She simply won’t stand for it.

Sometimes a badboy needs someone to sit them down and tell them to sort themselves out. And sometimes a badboy needs to learn that a true fight is to have passion for someone you care about. I hope Lucienne can beat that into Mark’s thick skull.