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Q&A How realistic should dialogue and character voices be?

Perhaps one way to see it is that you are representing reality, not copying it. In the same way that a painting (even those of the photographic realism school) represents or shows reality rather th...

posted 9y ago by S. Mitchell‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T04:56:44Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar S. Mitchell‭ · 2019-12-08T04:56:44Z (almost 5 years ago)
Perhaps one way to see it is that you are representing reality, not copying it. In the same way that a painting (even those of the photographic realism school) represents or shows reality rather than tries to provide an exact copy of it, so too with writing. I want my characters to sound like real people without actually copying how real people speak -- incomplete sentences, fillers, ect.

Even though I read it nearly thirty years ago, I remember some of the voices from Ernest Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' because they were so authentic, yet so different. However, he didn't just 'photocopy' real speech.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-01-15T19:46:50Z (almost 9 years ago)
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