Hard as it gets by laura kaye5/9/2023 There's an old writers' joke about how the voices we hear in our head are real. I think many writers feel this way when they close a series, especially one they've been working on for a long time. And the fact that I could tackle real-life issues veterans are facing along the way - like PTSD, depression, suicide, adjustment to civilian life, injuries, amputations and more - made the love they find and the justice they restore all the sweeter. And that made the redemption stories each man had individually, and that they found together as a group, so powerful, satisfying and emotional to write. I love writing tortured heroes, and I'm not sure they've ever been more tortured than in this series. Have you ever watched the last episode of a long-running TV show and watched them turn out the lights on the set for the very last time? That's sorta what it feels like inside my head. Like they're places where I've made so many special memories. I can move through the building - the first-floor tattoo shop, the second-floor cavernous gym and the Rixeys' apartment, and the unfinished third-floor apartment - like they're places I've been to many times. I kinda feel like I've lived in the renovated Hard Ink warehouse with the team for the past two years. And, of course, much of the setting is in fact based on real places in downtown Baltimore, not far from where I live. The world of Hard Ink is so vividly real in my mind.
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