Yeah...in the chapter of The Novel Project going out this week (or possibly two weeks from now), I think I eventually just had to use the word "fruitcake" instead of the other word, because....yeah, I just couldn't do it. :P
But that's the odd part, because I'm fine with mudblood and even racial derogatory terms - but, maybe it's like you said, I can only do it from certain perspectives and in certain circumstances - and the part of my novel where I needed to us the word, there wasn't a point made about the reaction...so it would have just been...out there.
Though for me it's something I have to pay close attention to, so when I actually have a man and a woman talking it's horribly liberating and exciting. I get carried away and use nothing but pronouns for the whole scene because I CAN. lol
It's funny, because before I got into fanfiction, I used to write a lot of short stories where I didn't use names AT all...it was either all "I" and "you" or all "he" and "she". It's like I'm either one extreme or the other :P
I just wish some authority somewhere would make "alright" an officially recognized and grammatically correct word so that I could stop being so self-conscious about it. :P But yeah, I'm the same as you...I think I do end up putting "alright" for a lot of my informal characters in fanfiction, and then just use "okay" the rest of the time.
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But that's the odd part, because I'm fine with mudblood and even racial derogatory terms - but, maybe it's like you said, I can only do it from certain perspectives and in certain circumstances - and the part of my novel where I needed to us the word, there wasn't a point made about the reaction...so it would have just been...out there.
Though for me it's something I have to pay close attention to, so when I actually have a man and a woman talking it's horribly liberating and exciting. I get carried away and use nothing but pronouns for the whole scene because I CAN. lol
It's funny, because before I got into fanfiction, I used to write a lot of short stories where I didn't use names AT all...it was either all "I" and "you" or all "he" and "she". It's like I'm either one extreme or the other :P
I just wish some authority somewhere would make "alright" an officially recognized and grammatically correct word so that I could stop being so self-conscious about it. :P But yeah, I'm the same as you...I think I do end up putting "alright" for a lot of my informal characters in fanfiction, and then just use "okay" the rest of the time.