Using the Character"s Voice in a Story
Each character's voice should stand as remarkably different.
In your story or novel the characters should sound different, act in distinct ways, and be noticeably diverse to your readers.
Telling stories should be all about the make-believe and the fantasy but sound plausible enough to have happened in reality.
You need to make the story as authentic and believable as possible but at the same time all the characters should sound remarkably different and interesting.
One character wants love, acceptance and justice like the invisible children movement in Uganda, another seeks acceptance like Mary Shelley (1797-1851) who sought societal approval for women as credible contributors to literature (Mary was the writer of Frankenstein) and a third character may have dreams of domination over little children like Joseph Kony (2012).
One is a leader of a group pressing the need for justice and fairness in a country far from his own.
Another is a woman who lost her mother very early in her life and went on to be a recognized writer in her time even though she never really got noticed in her own lifetime for a lot of her other works.
Kony, is the evil man who kidnaps children from their homes and turns them into his sex slaves and soldiers.
Your main character has to experience things that no other character has in their lives.
They have a history that is unlike anyone else.
They have conflict and traumas in their lives that people around you have never had to deal with in their lifetime.
Basically they have lives different from your readers and yourself.
They are distinctive and stand out as someone to love or hate.
Their thoughts, words, and speech patterns should be totally original and definitely different to your own.
They should not be an echo of you, not one little bit.
They will talk completely dissimilar to you and they will not do anything like you would do.
Their lives are different and their words should reflect those differences.
If you find writing your characters voice too much of a challenge the first time around simply write the whole story out as a first draft using your own voice (speech) and then rewrite the characters voices in the story to sound totally different to your own voice and give them their own set of habits and colloquialisms.
After a few revisions your characters should have developed their own voices.
The narrator's voice should become totally invisible to the reader.
In your story or novel the characters should sound different, act in distinct ways, and be noticeably diverse to your readers.
Telling stories should be all about the make-believe and the fantasy but sound plausible enough to have happened in reality.
You need to make the story as authentic and believable as possible but at the same time all the characters should sound remarkably different and interesting.
One character wants love, acceptance and justice like the invisible children movement in Uganda, another seeks acceptance like Mary Shelley (1797-1851) who sought societal approval for women as credible contributors to literature (Mary was the writer of Frankenstein) and a third character may have dreams of domination over little children like Joseph Kony (2012).
One is a leader of a group pressing the need for justice and fairness in a country far from his own.
Another is a woman who lost her mother very early in her life and went on to be a recognized writer in her time even though she never really got noticed in her own lifetime for a lot of her other works.
Kony, is the evil man who kidnaps children from their homes and turns them into his sex slaves and soldiers.
Your main character has to experience things that no other character has in their lives.
They have a history that is unlike anyone else.
They have conflict and traumas in their lives that people around you have never had to deal with in their lifetime.
Basically they have lives different from your readers and yourself.
They are distinctive and stand out as someone to love or hate.
Their thoughts, words, and speech patterns should be totally original and definitely different to your own.
They should not be an echo of you, not one little bit.
They will talk completely dissimilar to you and they will not do anything like you would do.
Their lives are different and their words should reflect those differences.
If you find writing your characters voice too much of a challenge the first time around simply write the whole story out as a first draft using your own voice (speech) and then rewrite the characters voices in the story to sound totally different to your own voice and give them their own set of habits and colloquialisms.
After a few revisions your characters should have developed their own voices.
The narrator's voice should become totally invisible to the reader.
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