Writing Exercise

Sounding Real When Writing Fiction
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts — The Exercise — Observe how the speech fragments below convey a sense of accent or national, regional, race, class, or cultural distinctions mainly through word choice and arrangement. Easily understood foreign words or names can help, too. What do these fragments suggest about the individual speakers by conveying the flavor of their speech? The Objective — In this case, it is threefold: to help reveal character, to convince your reader by making your dialogue sound credible, and to add variety. Differences in speech aren’t just realistic; they’re interesting and provocative, and they can give vitality to your story. Speech without flavor is like food without savor.
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A Self-Deceiving Portrait
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