From: kevin_c75@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sunday, January 19, 2014 5:57:44 PM UTC-5, David Friedman wrote:   
   > I still haven't figured out how to do it more generally. Does anyone    
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   > know of a good webbed discussion of tricks that can be used to make    
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   > different characters sound different? The ones that occur to me are use    
   >    
   > or not of contractions and omission of inessential words. I suppose for    
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   > some characters a tendency to hyperbole could work as well. Would it    
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   > make sense to have a character who usually spoke in the passive voice?   
      
   David:   
      
   Just saw this, courtesy of another post. I once did an exercise by writing a   
   dialog-only story. Since it was essentially a radio play, all characters   
   needed a different voice. The only thing I did was to imagine the characters   
   literally speaking, as    
   though they were actors. Nor did I use dialect spelling, since that can get in   
   the way.   
      
   Another factor is not only how the characters speak, but what they say. One   
   character was a kind-hearted middle aged woman with empathy for the other   
   characters. In contrast was a lower class miller with sociopathic tendencies.   
   Both not only spoke    
   differently, but what they said told something about them.   
   All that came from just imagining them as actors who spoke.   
      
   If nothing else, it's worth a try.   
      
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