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at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3815) [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions.php on line 4672: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3815) Horror World • View topic - Reviving an Old Novel
I think the basic plot wouldn't change much. I think I write better in general now as far as grammer (believe it or not) and narrative flow but the story itself I like. A freind of mine who read it suggested that I should think about recasting my main character as a teenager and try to sell it (after the requsite rewrites that is) to the young adult market, due to the fact that it is devoid of sex, and bad language. I really don't want to write it with a teenager as the main character though. I just don't picture it that way. Is the sex and language a requirement to get published otherwise?
Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:30 am Posts: 329 Location: Michigan
Oh hush Dranak...I'm not that bad
But no, I don't think you need to recast with a teenage character if you don't want to. If anything some teens have worse mouths on them than truckers.
Sex in novels depends on the characters and genre. Since yours is horror you can leave it out or put it in and it shouldn't be an issue.
Same with language. The only time you need to watch your cussing is if you are writing YA works. Otherwise, the best bet is to stay true to your characters. Let them say what they'd really say without censoring them or forcing them to cuss.
For instance in Apparitions you'll hardly ever see Bailey cuss and when she does it's the light version of it. Andy on the other hand can be quite blunt with his swearing.
If you're staying true to character in swearing and sex then you shouldn't have any issues (either way) in the adult market. Editors only get fussy with it when those things are tossed in as 'sides' or to make a puff book more interesting - which the technique fails on both accounts.
_________________ <b>~Raven Bower
Author of Horror & Dark Fantasy
Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:30 am Posts: 329 Location: Michigan
That's true. I only use it if the characters would actually say or do it.
For some reason when you posted that I got a flash of Saraya and Garak...Which is bad, but it's not that bad. Of course, that depends on your tolerance for some issues.
_________________ <b>~Raven Bower
Author of Horror & Dark Fantasy
Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:30 am Posts: 329 Location: Michigan
They wouldn't have it any other way...and really they knew what they were doing (not just physically) as once I finshed NW that opening with Saraya and Garak needed to be there for something I have planned in Book II
Come to think of it...Apparitions has one disturbing sex scene in it. I'm interested to see if my publisher keeps it in or cuts it.
But elsewise yeah, my stuff is pretty clean.
I've never seen or heard any editors complaining about too little sex or foul language. Yet anyway.
_________________ <b>~Raven Bower
Author of Horror & Dark Fantasy
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