shtick_figure ([info]shtick_figure) wrote,
@ 2009-02-11 20:53:00
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The Seven Dirty Words I Used in My Draft
The other day at work I found someone had usurped my computer, and that they'd left the word "douchbagery" typed into the google search function in the corner. I'm not quite sure what they found. Maybe a dictionary definition. Maybe a picture of themselves using my computer for their nefarious Google deeds. Maybe a sound bite from my neighbors being loud and obnoxious and holding their pot-smoking bongo drumming dance/seance thing on their floor/my ceiling.

Anyway, I think I use too many foul words in my drafts of Necromancer Syndrome and its sequel. Seriously, Damien drops a ridiculous amount of f-bombs, s-bombs, dirty-bombs, and er...actual bombs, the kind that go BOOM. I'll have to go back in and take a lot of them out. Honestly, I'm not afraid of using a lot of @#$%, but there is a point where enough is enough. I mean, I'm not writing a Tarantino film here. I'm not trying to use all Seven Dirty Words, though I'm sure I got pretty close.

*looks at draft*

Oh, hell.




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[info]spacewhore
2009-02-12 06:14 am UTC (link)
I think you should make it your goal to use each of them at least once. Because shit-piss-fuck-cunt-cocksucker-motherfucker-and-tits are awesome words.

Anyway, I don't think you should take TOO many out... I mean, he's a serial killer, not a choir boy. But if you're having them just for the sake of it, then yeah, it's time to weed a few out.

As for this weekend... right now snow might be fucking up our party. Hopefully it'll be gone by Saturday.

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[info]shtick_figure
2009-02-21 04:49 pm UTC (link)
Well, my main character (and it's written in first person) isn't a serial killer, but an FBI Agent. But yeah, he's no choir boy. I've mainly been putting in the curses where I'd say something like that. But then again i cuss a lot too.

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[info]spacewhore
2009-02-22 06:44 am UTC (link)
Oh, this is not the same one? The cop-who-doesn't-know-he's-a-serial-killer?

But yeah, definitely make the swearing natural.

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[info]shtick_figure
2009-02-22 08:37 am UTC (link)
Muh?

I've never used the cop-who-doesn't-know-he's-a-serial-killer thing, not even in my earliest plans/drafts. It's a cheap trick and a cop out. Kind of like the "it was all a dream" or the "gee, she's in a coma" endings.

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[info]spacewhore
2009-02-22 10:34 pm UTC (link)
Ummm I thought, in the one about Damien, he was a serial killer, and also a cop. Was it one or the other, or neither? I must be retarded/confused.

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[info]shtick_figure
2009-02-27 05:00 am UTC (link)
'Tis okay. In the earliest drafts, Damien was a detective going after a serial killer. But I decided to take the serial out of the killer, and make Damien an FBI Agent.

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