In the interest of time for NaNo, I am using some modern slang in my story but I will need more appropriate verbiage when I hit the editing stage
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DON'T USE "MY LIFE SUCKS"!!!!!! Ugh, I would have to come down there an give you a good spanking. :)
I don't know the tone of your boys' voices, but to come up with an age-appropriate bit of slang, think of something that really does suck in their time/place and riff on it. Is there a person or a place commonly known to all as a vile, unsavory, horrible thing? It's your world, make up your slang, your idioms, your colloquialisms and you will have a much richer world.
Oh, I would NEVER actually use it. It's going the way of the delete button when I edit. I'm just not going to waste my NaNo time finding the perfect phrase when "sucks" expresses the feeling so well.
Yeah, I've been noticing a definite lack of appropriate slang and cursing. I'm going to have to come up with some. I came up with one grumphy old grampa breaking out with "great Azbur's tits." Eventually, I'll have to figure out who Azbur is and what she did and why her tits are so famous. Maybe she went into battle topless to distract the men on the other side ;)
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I don't know the tone of your boys' voices, but to come up with an age-appropriate bit of slang, think of something that really does suck in their time/place and riff on it. Is there a person or a place commonly known to all as a vile, unsavory, horrible thing? It's your world, make up your slang, your idioms, your colloquialisms and you will have a much richer world.
So says I...the bogwitch... :)
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Yeah, I've been noticing a definite lack of appropriate slang and cursing. I'm going to have to come up with some. I came up with one grumphy old grampa breaking out with "great Azbur's tits." Eventually, I'll have to figure out who Azbur is and what she did and why her tits are so famous. Maybe she went into battle topless to distract the men on the other side ;)
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