I sort of understand ‘clean’ to mean no sex, but I understand some people have far higher standards. Standards which I do not always agree with. For example, some ‘crude’ words are cultural.
British people like me don’t consider the ‘b’ word (the one that rhymes with ‘study’) to be especially offensive, and yet I understand it would not make it…[Read more]

Very good and useful article. I also don’t think we can escape the darkness of the world and there are times when Christian Fiction seems too sanitized. Some people think that the International Christian/Inspy market is too Liberal/Lax in its standards for allowing things like milder cuss words.
There are some words that just aren’t that…[Read more]

This is great advice, especially the part about reading books set during the period you are researching/writing about.

I’m a bit of an oddball, in that I have read more Medieval Literature than Classics. By Medieval Literature I don’t mean modern novels set in the Middle Ages, I mean actual Literature written at the time.
I think a lot of…[Read more]