Guest blog post on cussing in secondary world fantasy

[dawtheminstrel]

I have a guest post up at Unleashing Readers today.

http://www.unleashingreaders.com/?p=11759

Here's the first couple of paragraphs:

When you write a story set in a made-up or secondary world, one of the small but significant problems you run into is giving characters a

Comments

[shirebound]

I love pondering things like that!

[dawtheminstrel]

Sometimes I get too crazy about it. Can I say "Adam's apple" in a world that doesn't have the Old Testament? Can I say "mesmerize" if Mesmer never lived in this world?

I avoid the first one but use the second on the grounds that the reader will not notice or care.