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I’m from the South and I have a very Southern way of talking. Sometimes when I’m writing something that takes place Not In the South, certain phrases or ways of speaking just weave their way in Like, girl. No one in Southern California would…
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Anonymous 6w

Use that outlandish of a metaphor, simile, or idiom to describe something

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Anonymous 5w

I feel like this could common thing for people who have a specific ways of speaking regionally. Maybe if you want to avoid the expressions, state what they mean rather than the metaphor. If that makes sense??

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