{"id":1920,"date":"2011-01-27T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2011-01-24T22:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T04:44:16","slug":"the-care-and-feeding-of-characters-how-to-get-them-to-speak-in-their-natural-and-distinct-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/the-care-and-feeding-of-characters-how-to-get-them-to-speak-in-their-natural-and-distinct-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"The Care and Feeding of Characters: How to get them to speak in their natural and distinct voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"It's<\/a><\/em>Welcome to this week’s guest post from author, Bobbye Terry, wherein she shares about character voice, and makes fun of me…<\/p>\n

*^*<\/p>\n

Stop talking to me! You have to quit! Be quiet for now, I\u2019ll get back to you. I mean it. I\u2019m about to talk to my blog audience\u2026<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Oh, hi! <\/strong><\/span>I didn\u2019t know you were here already. I was going to tell you not to pay attention to all the above and I\u2019m not crazy, but you already know I\u2019m schizophrenic from my last post<\/a>, so the proverbial cat is out of the bag. Sorry for the interruption, it\u2019s my characters again. They won\u2019t stop arguing with me.
\n<\/p>\n

Not to burden you, but I must tell you Beth<\/a> is one of those people who tries to reform us psychologically disturbed writers, so she\u2019s allowed me to talk to you twice a month. Don\u2019t give me that pained expression. Grin and bear it and count the time reading my blogs as community service.<\/p>\n

Now that I have that out of the way, let\u2019s talk character voice.<\/strong> Have you ever read a book and the characters all sounded the same or their actions were indistinguishable? If so, the writer did not assume the full identity of the character. I spoke about this recently on my own blog at www.DarynCross-fantasy.Blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You need to fully understand the character just like my own shrink understands me. Okay, maybe she\u2019s just getting to the core of my issues, but you can do it sooner.<\/p>\n

After all, you are your character\u2019s creator. Look at how you crafted her past, look at what\u2019s happened to the person since she was first hurt, what she holds dear, the things she loves the most. Those are all hot buttons. They help tell you how the character will react and what she will say.<\/p>\n

What happens when you write a character against the personality of that person? Take it from the opening lines of one of my poems:<\/p>\n

My characters are not too pleased,<\/p>\n

With whom I\u2019ve written them to be,<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been grumbling, and they might<\/p>\n

Form a union, go on strike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They rebel and you fall flat. Dead end, writer\u2019s block. You skid to a screeching halt in your book.<\/p>\n

Words to the wise, stay in the skin of the person whose point of view you assume in a scene. Also, make sure your dialogue and dialect mirror that character. Here are a few of my characters at work:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a miracle. I\u2019m surprised we didn\u2019t witness the second coming. My only explanation is the man had a death wish. After he married her, he went off to war the next day.\u201d She shook her head again. \u201cAnd when that didn\u2019t kill him, he jumped out in front of a tractor-trailer on his first leave. Honest to God, if I didn\u2019t know better, I\u2019d swear the man did all of it just to keep from ever coming home to her. Better to go as out a hero or even an accident victim than die as a stupid horny fool.\u201d ~ Trixie, This Magic Moment<\/em>, yet to be published.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now here\u2019s another one:<\/p>\n

\u201cI encountered two vampirinas on my way out of the club. It\u2019s gotten so you can\u2019t go three miles away from home without worrying someone\u2019s going to try and suck your blood. But my prize laser stake handled the situation. Too bad it leaves such a mess behind. Not like the regular method where the vamp simply explodes in a ball of kinetic energy.\u201d ~Honey Blood Draper, Honey Blood and the Collector<\/em>, coming soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Final one:<\/p>\n

\u201cLesson number one: Don\u2019t insult your date, especially about age and appearance. We tend to be touchy about those subjects. And we sure as hell don\u2019t appreciate our dates laughing at us.\u201d<\/p>\n

~ Roarke Hawthorne, Mr. Wrong<\/em>, Terry Campbell on Kindle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice the last one is straight to the point? A man. Men don\u2019t talk in flowery elongated sentences. They\u2019re short and to the point.<\/p>\n

Notice the first one is a woman from a small Southern town?<\/p>\n

The second one also lives in a small Southern town, same state, but she\u2019s one of high society breeding and you can tell from the speech, she\u2019s also a paranormal creature with special abilities.<\/p>\n

The way a character speaks and acts, not just what he says, must demonstrate the position the character plays in life and his outlook on it.<\/p>\n

Do you get it? I hope so, because the cacophony of voices in my ears is driving me crazy.<\/p>\n

For now, that\u2019s all I have time to do. I must battle the voices in my mind. A person has to sleep sometime, you know.<\/p>\n

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
\nBobbye Terry<\/a>. BE MINE, VALENTINE, 1\/28\/2011, Turquoise Morning Press (TMP)
\nIn March: LAST WISHES, Black Opal Books (BOB); BURIED IN BRINY BAY (TMP)
\nw\/a Terry Campbell<\/a>: CRAIGS’ LEGACY, 2\/11\/2011 (BOB); Backlist on Kindle<\/p>\n

w\/a Daryn Cross<\/a>, IT’S MAGIC, Crescent Moon Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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