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    your characters’ speech makes them real

    June 9, 2021 /

    In the previous post, I talked about a book that explores language as a way to influence and exert power over people. And that only happens because the language used for that purpose is somehow familiar to the ears of the influenced ones or it resonates to them in a way they believe in what’s told to them. The way a character talks, their lingo, their idiolect, their accent, it all makes them real to the reader for the same reason. When writers write dialogues and even narratives with “an accent” or when they use jargon in the speech of their characters, we believe them more. I love that as…

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