New Author needs help with lingo

[kristieleigh]

Hey everyone, I'm a new author and I just bought a killer cover of a surfer chick with her board on the beach.

Anyways, I want the language to be authentic. It takes place in Cali.

Is anyone willing to help me out throughout the writing process when I have questions? Maybe via email or text?

Thanks in advance

[jaffa1949]

Head down the beach, talk to the girls themselves, getting “authentic” jargon from the internet, you are going to produce a fractured text.

Lingo differs from beach to beach to beach and the majority of “ surfing” novel written by non surfers end up lame and unsought by surfers.
Try surfing, catch the stoke your writings will,then hold water!

Required reading; Barbarian Days, Busting down the door , Kook I’m sure others will,add more titles.
Good luck,

[Oldie]

After almost three years of surfing, watching moves, reading books and even some WSL content, I still do not feel comfortable with all the lingo. Getting authentic will indeed be a challenge.

So in order for you to be authentic, you are asking someone you don't even know to spend a lot of time for you and in the end enable you to make good business. Do you expect to get this for free or is there any benefit (not that I would qualify, just out of curiosity) ?

[dtc]

and of course our handy dictionary

https://surfing-waves.com/surf_talk.htm

The thing is that, like most slang, lots of people use some of the words, some people use some of the words and some of the words are hardly ever used (but most people know what they mean). The frequency of use will vary from place to place and age to age. I mean, the link above has (say) 'close out' that is used across the world, it also has 'Clidro' which I've never heard before but which seems to be UK term.

what is a 'killer cover' btw?

[Big H]

Poseur is a poseur.....stick to your own vocabulary and the story will ring truer.

[LostAtSea]

Watch a WSL broadcast and you will see grown men and women, in 2017, using terms like "rad", "stoked", "gnarly"

It's like you landed on a planet where Fast Times At Ridgmont High was the literary code.

I am not even kidding.

(no offence to Californians, where this actually is part of the cultural language, but hearing Aussies and South Africans use this language is a bit much)

So, sadly, watch Fast Times and your 99% of the way there.