I wrote a whole section, and as I was reading it over, I couldn’t help but feel that I’d lost Mickey’s voice. It just didn’t sound like him, and I couldn’t figure out what I’d done wrong. I read it over a couple times and I figured it out. Y’all…Mickey didn’t say “fuck” once in the entire six paragraphs of dialogue. In fact, he didn’t cuss at all. So now I’ve gotta go back and sprinkle in a couple cuss words to try and get his voice back, because at this point in the fic he’s still a defensive, snarky asshole to cover up that he’s scared.










