This is interesting. Obviously, I would only use the **** word in dialogue and certain characters demand it because that's how they talk. A lot of them are based on real people, but I still wouldn't use the word as often as they do in real life. There are a couple of words which I hear quite a bit, which I will never use in any story but **** is necessary.

Because I'm sad and got nothing better to do, I checked a story and I've used the **** word  or variations of it, 184 times in 40 chapters with a total of 227,000 words.

I don't know whether this is good or bad but I do know that I need to get out more!

I have one story, that the main character is a Teenager in the US. I've had to remove some of the Fracks and Fracking and frackity frack frack from the story, as I write the chapters, as both I and my Beta Readers felt it may be a bit much. However, recently, I had to go to a cousin's High School, to help move stuff, for a science project. I'm now in the mindset, that I don't have nearly enough Fracks in my story, compared to what I heard.

I worked for 20 years in a factory as the only female in a support union, alongside a manufacturing union.  When they closed that facility I spent the next 15 working in the school system as a before and after care provider to age 11, and in the lunchrooms at all levels.  Guess where I heard more use of **** and other "offensive" words?

5 hours ago, Kitt said:

Guess where I heard more use of **** and other "offensive" words?

Most likely at the School.