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Have any of you written things that someone among your family or friends doesn't quite approve of? How did you deal with it?
Most of my family (parents, siblings, cousins) are okay with watching and reading stuff with cursing, violence, etc. They're able to watch it but not use that as a template for their lives.
My favorite aunt will not. No cursing, no sex, no violence. I think she watches baseball and black-and-white movies and Home and Garden. I have no problem with her tastes, and she doesn't tell the rest of the family what we can or can't watch, so we all get along.
Cursing is her Big Thing. I've decided to have a talk with her before I put anything out there, and I won't get upset if she just can't read my work due to curse words.
However, my greatest worry is whether or not I'll have to face the accusation that by putting curse words in the mouths of my characters, I myself am saying them. I've written something that expresses my thoughts on this, and I'm hoping my aunt will understand my way of thinking, even if she doesn't agree with it.
Since writing the above link, I started a short story with a foul-mouthed teenage villain who takes God's name in vain in the very first couple of paragraphs. I tried to think of something else he could say, but it just seemed the most natural thing for that character at that time.
*sigh* What about everyone else? Has this sort of thing ever come up?
Most of my family (parents, siblings, cousins) are okay with watching and reading stuff with cursing, violence, etc. They're able to watch it but not use that as a template for their lives.
My favorite aunt will not. No cursing, no sex, no violence. I think she watches baseball and black-and-white movies and Home and Garden. I have no problem with her tastes, and she doesn't tell the rest of the family what we can or can't watch, so we all get along.
Cursing is her Big Thing. I've decided to have a talk with her before I put anything out there, and I won't get upset if she just can't read my work due to curse words.
However, my greatest worry is whether or not I'll have to face the accusation that by putting curse words in the mouths of my characters, I myself am saying them. I've written something that expresses my thoughts on this, and I'm hoping my aunt will understand my way of thinking, even if she doesn't agree with it.
Since writing the above link, I started a short story with a foul-mouthed teenage villain who takes God's name in vain in the very first couple of paragraphs. I tried to think of something else he could say, but it just seemed the most natural thing for that character at that time.
*sigh* What about everyone else? Has this sort of thing ever come up?