NSFW

First and foremost, let me address that this post itself is not going to be "Not Safe For Work." It will merely be me addressing the topic of not safe for working writing, what my feelings about it are, and why I have not been writing any pieces that would fall under that category.

Not safe for work pieces, if you can't tell by the incredibly apparent name, is generally what would also be called adult pieces. Pieces with excessive gore, language, or sexual content. I have written pieces with blood, and ones with a bit of swearing, but up until this point I have tried to refrain from going anywhere excessive with these things. It's not that I don't enjoy them, and in some writings that I have done elsewhere I have gone pretty NC-17, but I have this blog available in public. I don't particularly want to have to mark the entire blog as being NSFW because of a few pieces. I also know several if not all of the people who read what I write, and I don't know how particularly comfortable I would be with knowing that they are reading something along those lines, nor how comfortable they would be reading them, knowing that I wrote them.

Sex in particular is something that people have told me that I should write, and while I have entertained the thought, I don't know about posting it on the blog for those exact reasons. It is certainly something that I should consider practicing, and it would give me a certain mindset to go under that you can't get from many other places. Even if I were to never write a book that gets published that had any sex in it, it is something that I could conceivably do as a way to practice my writing and hopefully expand my boundaries and improve myself. But there are logistical problems with doing so that I'm not sure I want to handle.

Language is one that I am more familiar with. Curses are a part of my vocabulary, and a piece that I am quite prone to using in my day to day life. I personally have no qualms with swear words, because the only weight that any word can carry is one that you place upon it, either as a reader or as a writer. The connotation I have in my head for these kinds of words, and in fact many words both tame and viscous, are potentially quite different from the connotations anyone else may have. That being said, I am aware that other people have problems with these kinds of words, and if I were to think about, I would likely not be comfortable with children hearing or reading these words. Do I have children reading the blog? Probably not. Is there a possibility that they might one day? Potentially. And because of that, I'm not sure how far I want to push it.

These are things that I think about every time that I sit down to do any piece of writing, fiction or non-fiction. Everyday I sit down and ask myself, "Is today going to be the day that I cross that line?" And thus far, the answer has always been no. But I don't know if that will last forever. In the instance that I do ever cross that line, I will ensure that I make it apparent in some way on each piece of writing that contains adult content that it is, in fact, there. But, of course, it may be that not every one reading adheres to those warnings, and thus may be caught off guard by a sudden turn from one story to the next. And so, for the time being, I will refrain from taking that action.