Here’s Joseph Finder, a NY Times best-selling author, talking about how he studied his craft, why he uses outlines, and what he decided about four-letter words and why.
I had the same reaction when my daughter came to me wanting to read my stuff. I’ve never heard of Joseph Finder–there are soooo many authors these days. But I can tell you I’m going to pick up one of his books to see what he’s all about.
Will someone show the last few minutes of that to Scott Lynch? I would love to read more of his books, but really am not interested in 20 f-bombs every page.
Tell me about it. He’s totally bumped me out of the audience.
BTW, I’ve been listening to Finder. I think he was focusing on the f-word class of explitives. There are other milder obscentities in his stuff. Still, I think he’s right. The story is what matters. There are many ways to paint a person and make them believable that don’t require that. Although language is a fairly quick and powerful way to do it.
I found his book Killer Instinct some tiem ago and never saw anything elseby him. I enjoyed the book very much even though it’s not exactly the genre I typically prefer. I appreciate the comments rearding the expletives. I’ve wrestled with the same issue and pretty much come to the same conclusion as John.
Ooh, Killer Instinct is next on my list. We’ll see how it goes.