Profanity

In my everyday speech, I cuss a lot. "Fuck" and "Shit" being the most common ones out of my mouth-- but when it comes to writing, it's rare that any such vulgarities make it into my prose. It's not because I don't like it, or I have any qualms with profanity in writing; I tend not to include it because so much of my writing is dark or twisted enough as is... and a part of me enjoys trying to find more elegant ways to say filthy or hard to swallow things.

I think vulgarity in writing is as much an aspect of someone's style as it is their personality.

Besides, I've NEVER read something (yet) with profanity and thought, "Man, that would have been so much better without all the Bitches, Shits, Tit suckers and goat-fuckers," or whatever. So... be vulgar I say, especially if it feels right when you're writing it.

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