I'm writing a character who is foul mouthed and crude. I'm having no trouble at all writing this character. Anyone who knows me would think that a character like that would be difficult to write, but nope, it was easy. The vulgarities and crudities came racing off my keyboard faster than I could type them.
If you know me personally, then you know this is a complete one- eighty from my personality. I swear when I'm in traffic sometimes, or if someone has really got me riled up, but I'm pretty tame in the swearing department and completely MIA in the racial, ethnic, social slur department.
So why can I do it here? Where is it coming from?
I'm thinking perhaps it works like this. I hear these things in the "real world" and I don't think I'm absorbing it. It seems it's just going in one ear and out the other. But apparently not. There must be a part of my brain that it all went into. Maybe I just finally opened the door and it all came spilling out like junk in an overstuffed closet.
If that's the case, I advise everyone to sit and write dialogue for a really creepy person and let the junk coming spilling out of your brain closet. It's fun and pretty cathartic.
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