I do not own the image above By Lisa Marbly-Warir 6/27/2017 Got me to thinking about the main characters in my books and would they get along in real life? Reality TV—particularly The Housewives, draws in millions of viewers each week. We all have our favorite show(s) and our favorite ladies. My favorite reality TV shows are, #The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Kenya, Cynthia, Kandi) RHOC (Heather) Beverly Hills (Lisa, Kyle, Erica) #RHOP (Giselle, Monique, Robin) and honorable mention #Married to Medicine (Dr. Heavenly, Dr. Jackie, Dr. Simone, Lisa) I know these shows are mostly scripted, but for the off chance they are real to a certain degree—I came to the conclusion a while ago that some of these women can’t possibly be real friends. Real friends lift you up, they don’t throw shade and little digs. Maybe I’m late to the party and missing the point. I guess we wouldn’t be tuning in if everything was always roses and sunshine. Is strife and shade throwing the new norm in friendship? Or has it always been like this? I think yes for the most part. In high school I could differentiate between my real friends and the fake ones, or the ones who were wolves in sheep’s clothing. You would think the older you get some of the trivialities of high school behavior would be water under the bridge, but sadly that is not the case. I know my characters because I wrote them and while I would like to think they are kindred spirits—it isn’t likely they would be true friends. Some of them come from similar backgrounds and would ultimately run in the same circles; but they all have different life experiences, life goals and beginnings that probably wouldn’t sync with one another. I get it, at the end of the day the women in the reality TV shows do what they do for a paycheck. The messier and more conniving they are gets them fans and a following and we tune in every week for their antics. But would we put up with some of those behaviors in real life? Me? No. So that brings me to the main female characters in my books—would they get along if they were in a reality TV show? Let’s explore this—we have,
Destinee (A Love Worth Waiting For—Destinee’s Story) #1 She is the good girl out of all of the women. She, as with the other women I will mention have their own little antagonizer that is unique to them in their stories. Destinee is really no stranger to ridicule for upholding certain standards about herself. She would get along with the other ladies for the most part, but she wouldn’t take their crap. I don’t see her as hanging with people she didn’t like just to hang with them. Jewel (Jewel—A Chance at Love) Jewel is the second oldest of all of the ladies (late thirties into her forties). Pettiness and phoniness is behind her. She’s an entrepreneur, and is about her money. So she wouldn’t have time to hang with messy women who would take her down. Evermore (Under The Irish Moon) Evermore follows the beat of her own drummer. She is a reader and an adventurer. She’s open-minded. She could possibly give the ladies a run for their money. She won’t start anything, but she will attempt to finish it if you start with her. Quisha (The Millionaire—Diamonds are Forever) Quisha is like Evermore, they are about living their own lives on their terms and not really caring what people think. She and Evermore would probably be the real friends of the group. Jazzlyn (Born Out of Lust) #3 Jazzlyn is the oldest of the ladies and she is the hungriest for money and status. She would definitely be cutthroat for the things in life she wants. Jazzlyn would be the messiest of all the women. In my opinion these women would not be true friends. They would hang in the same affluent circle. Most of them brought there by the men in their lives—however, Jewel is the only one who is a self-made millionaire and would possibly look down on the other women for using men for their come up. Amazon.com: lisa marbly warir www.Shimmergirlbooks.com
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