Outlaws Are Fun To Write

Outlaws. The words conjures up images of Billy the Kid, Jesse James and numerous others. Dangerous, fast on the trigger; some had reason for embarking on this way of life. Others didn't. Some we read about in history class. Others we watched on the big screen, always hoping good would triumph over evil. Tall, short, dark-haired, unshaven or skilled at cheating at poker, one thing is for certain. They are fun to write.

Buck and Roth are two of the heroes in my Revolving Point, Texas Series. Both are temperamental, prickly outlaws, and fast with guns. They prefer life out on the trail to settling down, and they live by their own code of justice. Neither one of them is afraid to speak his mind, even if it isn't nice or mild-mannered. That's why they are fun to write. They don't live within the restraints of polite society.

In the series, you won't find Buck or Roth rubbing elbows with society's upper class in some high-fashion gentlemen's club. Nor will you see them wearing fancy clothes and boots polished to a shine. You will find them at Miller's saloon, dodging bullets and ferreting out the enemy any way they see fit. That's not to say they don't have manners. They do, and they treat women with respect. But even their woman aren't spared from their cursing, their rudeness and their need to prowl the streets. However, their women love them, and will overlook some of their faults, because life with a daring outlaw and his antics is too hard to resist.