| Opening with an expletive
My current draft begins with a four letter expletive. It is written in first person and the expletive is consistant with how most people would actually talk. However, I am not trying to be shocking and am thinking of a target audience starting with teenagers at the younger end. I'm not writting a children's story, but it has an 18ish protagonist and isn't strictly written for the grey-haired and wrinkly either. As I prefer to limit demonstrations of my swearing ability to the construction site, I was wondering if "Heck!" might be a better opening. Fiddlesticks seemed too Leave it to Beaver. It makes sense and fits; I just normally don't like the idea of swearing in my writting. Would heck work for a man who had a couple pints? |