Bomaw - Volume Two: The Beauty of Man and Woman
My name is Mercedes Keyes and I am a part of a wonderful writing team. The other member of the team is my husband, Mr. Lawrence James. This is how our team effort goes in this soap drama world we've written. I get an idea for the story and I discuss it with him. We sit, sometimes for hours going through the story plot, working out how the characters would respond, which direction depending on their makeup things might head. Because he is the man in this team, his feeling is, be true to the way a man thinks, feels and responds on certain things, especially when it comes to the woman he loves, or the way he is with other women in general. While I blanch at some of the flowery language needed to fully round out the male characters, my husband has made it clear ... you want my input, make the men true to the way they are. Thus you have the make up of the men in this story. The men will not always appeal to the way we wish them to be, but they are all we have to work with... he-he-he. Anyway ... while the male characters can indeed be trying, selfish, demanding, domineering, over-bearing, controlling and yes, sexist ... we love the challenge. And the women in our drama, Oh yes, us women. Being true to us, I have made the personality make up of the ones found in this soap as true as I've known many to be. Whether they be weak, or strong, victims, or victimizers, innocent, worldly, bossy, fluctuating mood swings, at times bitchy, longing and in love, tender and compassionate, flirtatious and lusty too. True as I feel those feelings to be, they will be found in the women of the Beauty of Man and Woman, coming up in all the un-predictable and sometimes predictable instances holding to certain facts and exhibiting those attributes - thus - a real-life ride of a relatable drama with the added heat of Interracial couples. Black women, with White males, White women with Black males, and any other combination we are inspired to add. Our soap drama starts in Wisconsin, with the story going from there to Chicago and L. A. * * *