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| Weighting for Mr Right |
Article by author Patricia
W Fisher, RN.
I don’t want a size two ass. I never
have.
In my romantic comedy, Weighting for
Mr. Right, I didn’t want my heroine, Megan Sayla, to end up with one either.
I will confess. Initially, I planned
for her to lose a ton of weight to find her happily ever after. Problem with that
scenario is we’ve all seen it enough times to count and I knew the majority of my
readers wouldn’t be able to relate and probably lose interest in her. She wouldn’t
be relatable nor likeable and would fall out of the fantasy of the romance and honestly,
it’s not very realistic.
By the end of the book, I wanted readers
to cheer for Megan’s success and think, “I like this girl. We could out and
drink margaritas all weekend.”
Don’t get me wrong, regaining or keeping
your health takes work and I’ve lost and gained and lost enough times to make my
head spin.
Problem is, I love to eat and I’ve
had more than my share of temper tantrums in dressing rooms of major department
stores, just ask my husband or my mom. But with the growing epidemic of obesity
in our country and the world, I wanted to be responsible and address how all of
us who hate the size of our thighs, might have gotten where we are and how to get
healthier. I wanted to write a realistic heroine in a romantic comedy (fantasy)
where I gave a good message.
So how would I weave fantasy with
reality so people didn’t think they’d been preached to, but still liked the characters
(and me) by the time I wrote The End?
As a former ICU nurse, I’d seen my
share of what poor health habits can do to a body. I remember one family all out
in the waiting room eating tubs of BBQ and potato salad while they each took turns
visiting grandma in the ICU after her heart attack and open heart surgery. As much
as I wanted to shake them and say, “Look at what you’re doing,” I also
understood it. Food is as much of a nutritional necessity as it is comfort.
In Weighting for Mr. Right, Megan
Sayla has comforted herself with food far too long and just by saying the word No
at the most inopportune time (her wedding), she’s thrown down a path of self-discovery
and given the potential to eat a big ass pile of Krispy Kreme donuts. (Remember,
when the marquis light’s on, you get a free donut.)
That’s when the story really begins
because what Megan discovers is that sometimes what you want may not be what’s best
for those in your life. I’d witnessed it enough to see that change causes major
chaos, even if the change is a good thing. That was the reality of Weighting for
Mr. Right.
Now here’s the fantasy. There’s a
very hot guy in it named Jacob Dante who thinks Megan is amazing from the moment
he meets her. To be clear, the guy is the fantasy, not the fact he likes her.
You’re welcome!
And that’s the simple version of how
I mixed fantasy and reality in my book.
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