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Q&A Is using a different voice for protagonist's narration and dialogue ok?

My protagonist uses a lot of extensive vocabulary and is quite verbose. The novel I am writing is a first-person narrative, and my protagonist is the narrator of the novel. An extensive vocabulary...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Abhishek Dey‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:16:14Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/46165
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Abhishek Dey‭ · 2019-12-08T12:16:14Z (about 5 years ago)
My protagonist uses a lot of extensive vocabulary and is quite verbose. The novel I am writing is a first-person narrative, and my protagonist is the narrator of the novel.

An extensive vocabulary and verbosity throughout the narration of the novel will be very frustrating and tiring for me. And maybe for the reader too.

If I keep the narration normal, obviously keeping the same personality in the narration too. But only during his dialogues, he will use extensive vocabulary.

Is this ok to do?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-06-23T04:07:19Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 1