You Are Not You

I had someone comment to me the other day that they were reading my newest novel, The Donzerly Light, and they were a bit shocked when they came to the first F-bomb. Point here being that, in my everyday interaction with people, I'm not a potty mouth.

But I'm not the same me when writing. And you are not you. We step out of the skin and the norms and the bland idiosyncrasies that define us to those who flit about us in 'the world', and we inhabit the characters and places of 'the other world' ...