-Tim Aldrich

But since there are people who feel that way, and since I imagine at least one or two of them read my blog (since I’m from a conservative religious school), I felt compelled to let them know ahead of time.

Second, the cursing. I appreciate being polite. And I do alter the way I speak and write depending on my audience - however - a great deal of the Seanacahi is fiction. And one of the primary demands of fiction is that characters must be true to themselves and their own aims. So if you have a character who is a longshoreman and he drops an iron box on his foot, you can’t have him say “aw, fudge” It’s not believeable.

I balance this artist’s license with a sense that art is deeply moral. And if you don’t have a purpose or integrity to your devices (like the swearing longshoreman) than pretty much anything you do is going to be bad.

It’s kind of like Schindler’s List. Awful, awful things happen in the film. And as a good person awful things are abhorrent to me. But what are you going to do? Awful things do happen. To whitewash over them is not only to do the story a disservice, but also to trivialize the victims.

So yeah, there’s cursing. But honestly, it’s not some unwholesome lust for invective on my part - soemtimes the characters and the story demand it. And when they do, I do what any good author should. I surrender to the demands of versmillitude.