tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622029434153478101.post1035433535461465577..comments2024-03-18T00:24:50.484-07:00Comments on Graham Smith Writer: Should or Shouldn’t Writers Give a Fu*k?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622029434153478101.post-33758392021900801192012-09-27T10:49:38.547-07:002012-09-27T10:49:38.547-07:00Thanks to one and all who commented.
It seems to ...Thanks to one and all who commented.<br /><br />It seems to me as if the general consensus is that sweary words are ok and even welcome provided that they are in context. The ever controversial "c" word seems to be the most offensive profanity and as such is the least used yet the most powerful.<br /><br />AJ that is one fucker of a link you provided.Graham Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15561493204302079903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622029434153478101.post-57765924219751358992012-09-26T03:20:29.458-07:002012-09-26T03:20:29.458-07:00It never fails to amaze me when I hear or read abo...It never fails to amaze me when I hear or read about writers expressing distaste for a word. And, as expected, nine times out of ten, it's the old C word that gets the blood boiling. (Note how I didn't write the whole word in case it offended your sensitive eyes and you had to go lie down for a while.) Old Peskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09763608545802208320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622029434153478101.post-88660674495939936762012-09-25T12:35:12.842-07:002012-09-25T12:35:12.842-07:00I rather like clever use of swearing, and must adm...I rather like clever use of swearing, and must admit to using it in speech personally (oops), and dialogue in fiction. What I don't like, as has been mentioned is gratuitous use - I mean, <em>fuck</em> is such a wonderful and powerful old word when used correctly, or when least expected - why waste it on filling out sentences? I do hate the 'C' word though.Lily Childshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15861288507716873813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622029434153478101.post-73841476171203343472012-09-25T08:22:56.243-07:002012-09-25T08:22:56.243-07:00The about curse words is, is that no one curses th...The about curse words is, is that no one curses the same way. If they all do in your book, it's just a lack of vocabulary. If there are people who shun curse words, psychos who chains them when they can't accept reality and plain ol' foul mouthed people, well you got it. The way I see it, it's just another tool in the writer's shed.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11483490020980574428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622029434153478101.post-34714238903866827432012-09-25T07:27:38.067-07:002012-09-25T07:27:38.067-07:00I'm as sweary as the next guy in some of my fi...I'm as sweary as the next guy in some of my fiction -- but, interestingly enough I suppose, never in my poetry. The F word has come to be interchangeable with "Very" here in the States and the "C" word is rarely used. Never could figure out why that is. Maybe because of its Anglo-Saxon heritage? Allan Guthrie did a brilliant satire on its usages in contemporary fiction in Shotgun Honey: http://www.shotgunhoney.net/2011/04/fucking-liars-by-allan-fucking-guthrie.html. I was, I'm afraid, a bit free with thr word at the end of last nights NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and The Seattle Seahawks. Maybe even a bit more than Allan's piece in SGH.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622029434153478101.post-16500315583422069372012-09-25T06:46:26.128-07:002012-09-25T06:46:26.128-07:00If it is gratuitous it is really annoying and the ...If it is gratuitous it is really annoying and the sign of a bad, or lazy, writer. If appropriate and used with constraint and conviction it doesn't offend me or, at least, I can excuse it. I also have the post-beer-sampling problem!Tracey Edgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05040496921411208852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622029434153478101.post-25827015560407347412012-09-25T04:50:06.325-07:002012-09-25T04:50:06.325-07:00Interesting. Odd how vagina and cunt denote the sa...Interesting. Odd how vagina and cunt denote the same thing, yet one can be used freely & posted up outside theatres while the other "provokes outrage", and this despite the fact that when the latter is used as a curse it generally loses its sexual connotation & just denotes a nasty fellow.<br />I can do without it as a punctuation, though it doesn't offend me. Reading it page after page bores me, as would listening to it.<br />When I writr, there are very few......though I did prepare a special edition of my books to send to my mother, in which the bad guys were calling each other "scoundrels" and "blackguards" AndyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6622029434153478101.post-4954999753082895572012-09-25T04:09:11.476-07:002012-09-25T04:09:11.476-07:00If it's in character, I agree, it's comple...If it's in character, I agree, it's completely acceptable and I don't bat an eyelid.<br />If it's out of the blue, and out of character, I sometimes wonder if the writer is just trying to make it 'rough' so people will buy into whatever happens next. Sudden violence is ok, of course, but if it's completely out of character and just to titillate the story...not so much.<br />:) good postKaihttp://darknesspd.comnoreply@blogger.com