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Ep. 606: Top 14 Tips and Tools for Creating Unique Character Voices

Helping Writers Become Authors

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Creating Character Voices for Stranger Things

A character's regional history may also suggest to you interesting word choices. Every profession no matter how humble offers its own unique way of speaking particular slang as well as specialized industry terms. The moment a character's dialogue begins to sound repetitive or rehearsed you do better to dial back on the originality and let them talk just like everybody else for a bit. All of these tools are meant to be used to achieve verisimilitude. They're here to create characters who are larger than life but who sound real.

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