Another blog post from my ALLi friend Debbie – I couldn’t put it better myself, so here’s her thoughtful post on swearing in the fiction we write … which was a hot topic discussed at the Scargill writers’ weekend in June …
A quick post to share the article I’ve just written for the ALLi Author Advice Centre on the use of bad language in fiction
Already committed… (Thanks to fellow author Jacci Gooding for the photo)
Do you give a damn whether there is swearing in the stories you read?
Personally, I’m not keen on hearing the same bad language over and over again supposedly for the sake of realism, whether on television, in films or in books, and I don’t use it much either.
In fact, I’d always thought the language in my own fiction was pretty blameless. That is, until I started reading a new story, as yet unpublished, in the Quaker Meeting House as part of the Evesham Festival of Words last month. Eager to give a brand new, unpublished story, Drunk in Charge, an airing and get some feedback, I hadn’t really thought through the implications…
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