LOL! I think that apart from the middle classes we do all rather enjoy a bit of profanity. And it probably does help to grow up being trained to hear class differences from (for example) whether someone says 'that bugger' or 'that wanker'.
I did OK in 2007 on NaNo - I managed to do the first draft of False Colors. But I suspect now that that was a fluke due to me having got the story firmly established in my mind already through having done a short version in drabbles first. I'm beginning to think that a great deal of the work involved with writing is the concept wrangling that happens before you even start. If it doesn't happen, then you get stampeding ideas and not a lot of forward progress.
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Date: 2009-12-01 10:30 pm (UTC)I did OK in 2007 on NaNo - I managed to do the first draft of False Colors. But I suspect now that that was a fluke due to me having got the story firmly established in my mind already through having done a short version in drabbles first. I'm beginning to think that a great deal of the work involved with writing is the concept wrangling that happens before you even start. If it doesn't happen, then you get stampeding ideas and not a lot of forward progress.