http://annaelliottbooks.com/wp/2009/06/clothes-make-the-writer/ Anna Elliott Historical Fiction Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 http://annaelliottbooks.com/wp/2009/06/clothes-make-the-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Anna Elliott Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:05:57 +0000 http://annaelliottbooks.com/wp/?p=123#comment-38 Bernard Cornwell’s characters do tend to curse a lot. Though for myself I don’t find it gratuitous at all, just true to the characters he’s writing and illustrative of the type of people they are. After all, in real life some people curse and some don’t. I don’t–my husband teases me mercilessly because if I’m trying to tell a joke involving even a mild obscenity I will stutter and stammer and try to think of a clean synonym and generally completely wreck the delivery. But fiction would be (really!) boring if all the characters were like me. And I will also say that Bernard Cornwell’s curses are incredibly creative. Read his latest, Agincourt, and you will see instantly what I mean!

]]> http://annaelliottbooks.com/wp/2009/06/clothes-make-the-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Marie Burton Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:52:40 +0000 http://annaelliottbooks.com/wp/?p=123#comment-37 I have not read any of his books, they keep popping up on my radar but I have heard that he has a lot of cursing in the books. What do you think?

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