Gratuitous cussing

It bothers me when it's in text that isn't spoken by a character, unless the book is written in first person. While it doesn't bother me so much if a character curses, but I shouldn't feel like the author is cursing me out. Since I curse myself, I can't really say that it is offensive to me, but I think it breaks the tone of the story sometimes, especially if every single character the person writes curses excessively. Not everyone in real life does so, thus not everyone in the book should do so. I don't mind if a character curses and it's in-character for them to do so, but it also really bothers me if a character comes across as not the kind of person to talk that way and then starts doing so all the time. It makes me feel like the author isn't really thinking about what the character would say.

Some of the more sacreligious things bother me Joyce, but when you understand where certain slang comes from, I do not believe it all to be offensive in front of God. So much of our language is derived from another. Most of the slang you will find very intelligent beginnings that make perfect sense. Its how our puritan natures perceive it. ..... Now don't get me wrong I am not making excuses no one likes to hear every other word the f bomb, but there are some thoughts that not all of what we believe to be curses are actually indeed that.

I don't like a lot of cuss words either, I have two books which I have written, and there is two words in the book that are cuss words but it was important to the story, hope you will purchase my books, I think you would enjoy them.

Well, those words really bothered me a lot... and i guess it is one of the reasons why i shifted to reading the classics and then eventually children's books... i know that novels about the current times won't be that authentic without the cussing... and i cannot control the writers or editors about that... so my way is simply not to read them anymore...

Yes it bothers me and I also see this in a lot of my favorite authors. I try to put it out of mind but I do not like it and sometimes they could do without it and not hurt the story at all. Of course sometimes some are appropriate but not a flood of them forheavens sakes.

Although I admit that sometimes when I am extremely upset I may write explicit dialog. I do get offended when the dialog as such is repeated for nothing more than just using the word. I am not offended as much by the F word, in my mind it is not really a curse word as such (except if it is used like it is in MF and so forth), But the repeated gd's makes me put the book down (I have even put a few Steven King books down because of it), or I will turn the T.V. channel or turn it off completely.