h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

've been reading such a lot of good stuff on this site, my mind is sparking off ideas in every direction and I'm not sure which to pursue first, I was disappointed to find that my short-story "The Lightbringer" was withdrawn from the site, because of "bad language"; that's a bit rich from the people who screened "Jerry Springer - The Opera", if you ask me. I also think that as long as you warn people of strong language/ violence, then nobody has to read it and we should be allowed freedom of expression.

At the moment, I have to write f**k, when I really don't give a f**ck; I'm inclined to use the same argument as Aunty Beeb; if you don't like it, don't read it, but Aunty (as so many others) seems inclined towards "do what I say, not what I do". How to resolve this, I wonder? Any creative artist can claim the right to free expression, it seems to me, there's no "talent threshold" that I'm aware of. If you don't believe me, check out the Turner Prize.

At the moment I'm working on a dialogue between a woman and her sexually abusive father, 20 years on. My own father died before I could "confront" him, so I'm doing it now in dialogue form; I know damn well this will get pulled too, and why? Because it's too close to the truth? Or because I'm using the kind of vocabulary I would have used. if he hadn't died before I gathered the courage?