Can a gold digger works as lead character in Erotic fiction?

M.N Thorne · Jan 30, 2014

Hello everyone,

I was thinking about writing a novelette in which is a hot and steamy erotic story about a gold digger falls in love with a gardener after mistaking him for a rich IT tech CEO. My question is can a gold digger work as a lead character? If so, have you seen any erotic novelettes containing gold diggers as their lead characters?

Filigree · Jan 30, 2014

I'd think it depends on the gold-digger's motivations and character. Do they have an honorable motive for wanting to marry money? Do they change for the better as a result of loving the gardener? Do you want to end this Happy For Now, with a relationship between them, or as an isolated encounter? Is the gold-digger a sympathetic character from the start, or an annoying one?

veinglory · Jan 30, 2014

Marilyn Monroe was in a role that proved that gold diggers can be perfectly lovely people.

M.N Thorne · Jan 30, 2014

Filigree said:
I'd think it depends on the gold-digger's motivations and character. Do they have an honorable motive for wanting to marry money? Do they change for the better as a result of loving the gardener? Do you want to end this Happy For Now, with a relationship between them, or as an isolated encounter? Is the gold-digger a sympathetic character from the start, or an annoying one?

Hello Fillgree, I was writing her as an sympathetic character who need to become a gold digger in order to pay for college. The relationship between the gold-digger and the gardener would grow into something serious.
Thank you for your help.

M.N Thorne · Jan 30, 2014

veinglory said:
Marilyn Monroe was in a role that proved that gold diggers can be perfectly lovely people.

I totally agree with you because many of her films she played the loving gold digger

Ann_Mayburn · Jan 31, 2014

Absolutely. Samantha Young did an absolutely fabulous job turning a gold digger into a leading lady you can root for in 'Down London Road'.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16140408-down-london-road

Serene09 · Jan 31, 2014

Why not?

dangerousbill · Jan 31, 2014

M.N Thorne said:
My question is can a gold digger work as a lead character? If so, have you seen any erotic novelettes containing gold diggers as their lead characters?

Even Satan can be lead character. Go for it. Her motives don't have to be pure.

Just don't make her cardboard, ie, flat: all good, all bad, with no other interests and no history.

Lawrence Block wrote a successful series with a hit man as a lead character. He collects stamps as a hobby, and jokes and flirts with the woman who sets up the hits for him.

Can a gold digger works as lead character in Erotic fiction?

M.N Thorne

Filigree

Mildly Disturbing

veinglory

volitare nequeo

M.N Thorne

M.N Thorne

Ann_Mayburn

Smutty McTitters

Serene09

dangerousbill

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