Comments on: LIQUID COURAGE http://chasingheroes.com/liquid-courage/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:12:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Virna http://chasingheroes.com/liquid-courage/#comment-851 Virna Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:21:18 +0000 http://chasingheroes.com/liquid-courage/#comment-851 I totally agree with you Lee and Lone--an isolated and mild use of alcohol as a jump start to something rather than a dependency for action is so different. Foster definitely made the intoxication of the hero more fortuitous and humorous than a weakness, so it didn't take away from his appeal. Thanks for posting! I totally agree with you Lee and Lone–an isolated and mild use of alcohol as a jump start to something rather than a dependency for action is so different. Foster definitely made the intoxication of the hero more fortuitous and humorous than a weakness, so it didn’t take away from his appeal. Thanks for posting!

]]> By: Lone Chatelaine http://chasingheroes.com/liquid-courage/#comment-848 Lone Chatelaine Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:27:34 +0000 http://chasingheroes.com/liquid-courage/#comment-848 I prefer characters having the confidence to say what they want to say and face their feelings without needing alcohol to do it. I do love my wine, and I like a man who will enjoy it with me, but not as a crutch. Could be because my former longtime boyfriend drank every single night from the time he came home from work til the time he either went to bed or fell asleep on the sofa. He did it out of boredom or something, but still...I tend to see it as a weakness if one has to drink like that in order to deal with something. I do think that it's realistic to have characters in a book be drinking one night and something happens between them that might not have normally happened, and that's fine. I don't mind that at all. But if they had to drink every time they were together, then it would be more about the alcohol than it would be about romance. I prefer characters having the confidence to say what they want to say and face their feelings without needing alcohol to do it. I do love my wine, and I like a man who will enjoy it with me, but not as a crutch. Could be because my former longtime boyfriend drank every single night from the time he came home from work til the time he either went to bed or fell asleep on the sofa. He did it out of boredom or something, but still…I tend to see it as a weakness if one has to drink like that in order to deal with something.

I do think that it’s realistic to have characters in a book be drinking one night and something happens between them that might not have normally happened, and that’s fine. I don’t mind that at all. But if they had to drink every time they were together, then it would be more about the alcohol than it would be about romance.

]]> By: Lee http://chasingheroes.com/liquid-courage/#comment-847 Lee Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:20:03 +0000 http://chasingheroes.com/liquid-courage/#comment-847 Courage in a bottle. I think if the author uses the alcohol once, to make a point, then lets it go after that, it can work. But if the hero has to grab a bottle everytime he's in the presense of the heroine, well, Huston we've got a problem. I really don't like the idea of it. I'd rather see the true raw emotion, without a prop. Why can't a guy who has broken up with a bad relationship, just be relieved he'd dodged that bullet and move on? I don't mind the use of a recovering alcoholic, that can be interesting, since that is a constant battle, that can be lost at any moment. That would add a lot of GMC... Courage in a bottle. I think if the author uses the alcohol once, to make a point, then lets it go after that, it can work. But if the hero has to grab a bottle everytime he’s in the presense of the heroine, well, Huston we’ve got a problem. I really don’t like the idea of it. I’d rather see the true raw emotion, without a prop. Why can’t a guy who has broken up with a bad relationship, just be relieved he’d dodged that bullet and move on? I don’t mind the use of a recovering alcoholic, that can be interesting, since that is a constant battle, that can be lost at any moment. That would add a lot of GMC…

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