9 Profanity Techniques That Propel Your Novel to Greatness

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How do you use profanity in good ways in fiction, rather than in gratuitous ways? The 9 examples I highlight are masterful ways that famous authors harnessed the power of cursing in order to tell a better story. The dialogue course I mentioned in my video: https://thejohnfox.com/writing-courses/the-ultimate-guide-to-writing-dialogue/ COACHING: Join my coaching program for writers, BOOKFOX LAB: https://thejohnfox.com/bookfox-lab/ COURSES: Use my 10 courses in Bookfox Academy, with 230+ videos, to write your novel: https://thejohnfox.com/writing-courses/ EMAILS: Get emails about writing from me: https://thejohnfox.com/subscribe/ MY BOOK: Buy my book, "The Linchpin Writer": https://amzn.to/3U5ul14 Timeline 0:00 Intro 0:16 One Cursing Technique Stephen King Swears By 1:36 Interstellar’s One F-Bomb is Perfect 2:47 Maze Runner’s Substitutions 4:41 J.D. Salinger’s Million-Dollar Raw Honesty 6:33 Marquez’s Sneaky Workaround 7:32 Flannery’s Holy Potty Mouths 8:51 Curse Words as Humor 9:41 Irvine Welsh’s Class Consciousness 11:04 The Character Reversal