[stylist] Does Anyone Write Daily as a Routine No Matter What's Going On?

Tue Oct 25 19:43:22 UTC 2016

Not everyone, but most people swear. My dad's a pastor, and he's dropped the
occasional curse word at particular moments, like when moving a couch
downstairs, and it slid down, knocking him over, LOL!

I truly never dropped a swear word until my 20s, and then I started swearing
quite a bit, though generally not in public because you just don't know who
it will offend. Since having kids, I tend to edit myself now. However, even
though I added explicatives to my vocabulary, I have always maintained that
the English language includes thousands of words, why limit yourself to a
chosen few?

That being said, I don't quite get the uproar of swear words when used in
proper context. They are just words. And honestly, when you use gosh darn
and golly and shoot, they are just water-downed versions. It's not fooling
anyone. Words are words. It doesn't mean anything if a person chooses to
swear or not. Sure, there's a time and place, but they are words all the
same. I don't want my four-year-old exposed to them, nor do I think it
appropriate to swear around people who are uncomfortable with it, but at the
end of the day, they are words just like any other words from the lexicon.

But again, as previously mentioned, don't limit yourself to a few words.
Explore what our language has to offer, smile. Sample everything from the
buffett but don't stick to just one choice.

But sometimes, there's truly no better way to describe certain things, or
people, than with good-old fashioned curse words. They just do the job
nicely, grin.

Bridgit

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I acompletely agree with you on this. 
When I was little I thought dumb and stupid were bad words. And I could not
dare imagine what would happen if I told someone to shut up. If I wanted to
write swear words in stories, I would just write things like "my f-ing
life" "What the" would just be  abbreviated as WTF.  To this day I do it
occasionally and write the words out, but I still can not enjoy music with
bad words in them LOL. 
That being said, while I do think it is healthy and refreshing for kids to
learn when young, I feel there is still a hierarchical way of when it is
acceptable. For example, I could do it with friends from people I went to
LCB with. Whereas, with the instructors, it seems to bother them more. I
told my one instructor once that I was "pissed off", which I don't think is
considered a swear word, and he acted shocked.  Personally I feel the older
generation could learn to relax a bit.
Just my thoughts.
Vejas  

> On Oct 25, 2016, at 11:05, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist
<stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I say do what's authentic. In real life, people of all ages swear, 
> especially under tough circumstances. If targeting a Christian 
> audience, then perhaps skip swearing, but people respond to certain 
> things certain ways, and I don't think it's necessarily wrong to show 
> this. Nor does it encourage behavior. Kids want characters that 
> resonate with them, that are relateable. Parents and adults often 
> forget what being a kid is like. We want to keep kids away from 
> certain things so much, but we get into this mindset that everything 
> will corrupt little minds, but showing a character going through 
> certain emotions and responding a certain way isn't going to 
> automatically make kids engage in similar behavior. And if you have a 
> character respond to stress by supressing and avoiding, this is 
> actually potentially as destructive, maybe even more so, than acting 
> out in real life, yet few would be concerned to see a character exhibit
this kind of behavior.
> 
> In the end, I say goe for what feels authentic. Readers see through it 
> when you don't do this, when you hold back.
> 
> Bridgit
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> What's Going On?
> 
> Right. I just see Lucy as this tightly-controlled, wound up kid on a 
> chaotic Earth, too tough to cry, but acting out.
> And words like shucks and shoot don't seem authentic to me.
> Yet I don't want to write a YA book or kid's book that would encourage 
> such acting out.
> The writers of the Left Behind series said this was tricky for them. 
> They wanted to portray real characters with flaws intact, but they 
> also wanted to knew Christian book publishers had certain standards.
> So, I guess I need to think about how I can express Lucy in all her 
> anger and sadness without being burned at the stake by angry parents. 
> LOL Thea
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> What's Going On?
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> I've read a lot of YA books that have swearing. It really depends on 
> what you want to accomplish with a story, and what you're comfortable 
> with. It also depends on target audience. If the 8-year-old is the 
> main character in a book for younger readers, perhaps cut the 
> swearing, or keep it at a minimum at the very least. But if the child 
> in question is in a book for teens and/or 20-somethings or adults, then go
for it.
> 
> Or to water it down, make up your own words that stand in for 
> swearing. Like in the Maze Runner books. Personally, I find this 
> annoying and just a tricky way to swear, but nonetheless, people do it.
> 
> Bridgit
> 
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> Thanks very kindly, Debbie.
> I'm glad you like the story.
> Question for anyone who wants to answer it: Is it cool to show 
> eight-year-olds swearing, or what?
> The main character, Lucy, was called Lucy Blankety-blank because of 
> her creative profanity.
> I'm not sure this story will end up being appropriate for the age 
> group of my main character; I just write what's in me.
> And as I'm writing, I go into more detail about why the teacher was 
> kind to Lucy, and other facts about her species.
> This is what a long break from work does for me. I come back ready to
work.
> Thea
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> Thea, I must say that I have not forgotten your novel. I still think 
> about it from time to time, and one of the characters that totally 
> fascinates me is the teacher. I keep wondering why those from her 
> planet want to create chaos on Earth? What is her motive? Why was she so
kind to Lucy? So I hope
> you will write more, and share it with us.    Debby
> 
>> On Oct 24, 2016 3:49 PM, Miss Thea via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
>> 
>> Hi, Vejas
>> I'd like to know this answer too.
>> I don't write every day, and I do have some health issues that 
>> prevent me from being the lean, mean writing machine I'd like to be.
>> But I do find that when I start writing, the ideas come.
>> I don't know if you were around when I was workshopping my "Lucy and 
>> Lithe"
>> novel, but I haven't been writing in it for some time.
>> Then, my interest revived, I started writing, and re-thought the 
>> whole concept, even changing the title.
>> Now it's going to be a  series. I think I'm working on the prequel.
>> It's now called "She's For Andorpha", at least that's my working title.
>> For now.
>> I also have borderline personality, and sometimes that gets in the way.
>> But
>> it can also be useful, because when my interest revives, I write like 
>> a house on fire.
>> Born completely blind, I lack the knowledge of color, landscape and 
>> other sensory information important to readers. So, I've learned to 
>> write what I know, and hope if my work reaches the editor stage, that 
>> I'll get someone who can help me fill in the details.
>> Ok, I went way off topic. I don't write every day. I often feel I 
>> need a break, due to health problems and writer's block.
>> But I'm very interested in what daily writers have to say.
>> Thea
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 6:34 PM
>> To: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist
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>> Subject: [stylist] Does Anyone Write Daily as a Routine No Matter 
>> What's Going On?
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> A friend of mine who likes to write  makes it a habit to do so daily.
>> I would really like to do this. I did not write much as an LCB 
>> student but have definitely done some more writing  in the past few 
>> months, although not as much as I would like to. The problem is that 
>> I don't always  know what I would want to write on a given day. For 
>> example, for a story I'm working on about 2 friends lives during and 
>> after spending time together in a training center, I may not have 
>> ideas every single day on what I want to happen. I would just like to 
>> know how these of you who write daily keep it up consistently despite 
>> writers block Thanks, Vejas 
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