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Originally Posted by WPotocki
Totally love your examples and will check out the link.
As for the garbage reference, it's tongue in cheek, but makes the point. I think it's good to claim the word back from other's tossing it around. It's all good.
The thing is that using language in a unique way confuses people. They're like, "Well, I know she's not smart, so this must be wrong." Consequently, the entire book went down the old toilet. I think the other confusing thing is people thinking that what you write, is what you agree with. They attach the character's mores or morality to the writer, which ain't true! It's like you have to stop the action and include an aside that you do not approve of the behavior your characters are exhibiting and would have stopped it with a call to 911 if you were there.
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To get back to the subject, language to me is like clay. I get to mush it up, put it in any position I want, poke it, prod it and shape it to my will. Language does not control me - I control it - at least in the realm of writing. I respect it because t's a tool, like a computer. A very useful tool since it gives me the means to communicate, but I'll do what I need to do to it to tell the story.
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I'm sorry to disagree, but no matter how much you may like to "mush up" language, putting an apostrophe on the word "others" as you've done in this post is just plain
wrong, and seeing that in a book would instantly make me think "this author can't write", no matter how good the story is.