Some writers, well most writers, I think, find that they have these little quirks about what they can and can not write. Some things that are "taboo" in the writer's personal life and often slip into the author's writing, wither they realize it or not. Have you ever found this to be true of your own writings? Is there anything that you can not say or do in your own writing?
Here are a few things that I have noticed when I write:
- I never use the names of any of my relatives:
- (that's 264 names I can not use... my mom is #8 of 12 kids, and each of them averages 12 kids... the most being 15 kids... those kids in turn average 8 kids each.... and I didn't include the 4th and 5th generations, which would take the number well over a thousand... luckily for me, about half of those names come out of the Book of Mormon anyways, so I'd never think to use them as character names anyways.)
I never write porn
I have written sex scenes, but I edit every one of them out before the book gets published.
I never write any characters who drink alcohol.
I never write any characters who smoke.
I never use vulgar verbology. (sex talk, snot talk, fart talk, etc.)
The only swear words I ever write are: damn, hell, and bitch, and usualy these are used in correct context, meaning they are not being used as swear words.
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Hm. I haven't used names of relatives or people I know well--I consciously steer clear of that in case people think I'm writing about them. I don't use coarse language, which I'm not against using, but I just haven't written any scenes or characters that really warrant it.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I have written characters who use drugs and left sex scenes in.
There are a bunch of other things which I don't write about, but I think it's more that I'm not interested in them rather than some sort of taboo. If a story demanded to be taken into those particular directions, I would hope that I would be brave enough to venture into the unknown waters.