When I was writing
Risen, my mother was still alive and I knew she'd be reading it, so I debated about using certain profanity that I knew she would find offensive. But I decided that literary "honesty" outweighed offending my mother, so I have certain characters (high school students) speaking much as they would in real life.
My mother passed away and I ended up working on a high school campus. Now I'm glad that I didn't compromise my work, and I see that I woefully understated the amount of profanity my high school characters used! Apparently the word that, in my day, was an absolute shocker has become commonplace.
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And heaven forbid (pun intended) mentioning religion in front of an atheist! It's like waving a red flag in front of an irritated bull. They literally can't control themselves. They just have to attack.
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Oh, god, no. There aren't enough hours in the day to do this!
