by PeggySue Wells @PeggySueWells
By the time she was ten years old, my daughter had surpassed all the art instruction I could give. At a local art show, she considered the pieces on display and pointed to a group of portraits. “I could learn from that artist.”
And so she began group lessons at the artist’s studio. When I picked her up after the first class, my daughter eagerly described the new techniques she learned and finished with, “And there is a little old lady who swears like crazy.”
The following week, the instructor and I talked about my daughter’s progress. “She mentioned that one classmate is particularly colorful,” I said.
The instructor nodded. “When your daughter joined the class, that student really cleaned up her language.”
To use or not to use. What does a writer do with the question of profanity? Writing about our artistic little old lady with the surprising vocabulary, what words get included in the dialog?
