Squick

How squicky (icky and/or violent) is your 2006 novel?
My characters don't have bodily functions or fluids (G)	14 % (43)
A seven year old boy would be fascinated! (PG)	17 % (53)
Lotsa ketchup and ooze, but nothing you could tie to an organ (PG-13)	28 % (86)
The blood/fur/red meat/weapons fly freely (R)	29 % (91)
I cover my eyes when I write this stuff (NC-17/V)	10 % (31)
Total Votes: 304 Total Voters: 304

Whew. Finally over the hump and looking 75k in the eye. Don't think I'll get 100k in, but my novel is finally blossoming now that the insane urge to add fluff, detail and color have subsided. (Still need to kill that !#$% main character so my original plot can unfold!)

One cool side note is watching the number of people hitting my 'squick factor' poll on the NaNoWriMo polling area. There were two polls: the other one for sexual content, but folks either mostly ignored it, or, as I suspected from an Americano-centric crew, lumped sex and violence into one category. Talk about squicky!

The snapshot to the left is from just now.

The curve is actually a little milder than I thought: I was betting on a 65%+ nasty (R+) factor, but apparently there are a lot more PG and PG-13 writers out there than I had assumed. And Bambi can breathe easier: there are at least 14% of respondents that would connect with him...




Unless they're so busy writing nasty, horrible stuff that they can't take the time to vote...