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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

I am in love with you /p

What about the one with the princess locked in a tower learning to become a wizard? That’s lived in my mind for years and I haven’t seen it in a long time

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Character-voice is I think one of the hardest parts of writing and here's two charts to explain my thoughts on why.

The intention:

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The thing I think is maybe happening which I have no idea how to check or prevent:

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Use references.

I am not joking. Find some audio medium that features someone speaking with similar speech patterns to what you want for your character and translate that to your work. Podcasts, comedy shows, movies, you name it—just find someone whose voice/word choice/rhythm/etc. rings true and scavenge from them. Listen to them until you can summon their voice in your head and then write from that state of mind.

Our own mannerisms will inevitably leak into our work, of course, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It is, in my opinion, often endearing. But if you want to whittle out a very precise, individual voice for your characters, then being familiar with how other people speak will be extremely helpful.

No but for real!!!


All my MCs have someone whose voice I'm referencing, tweaked a bit.

Yael is Finn the Human but slightly less weird

Issac talks like if Tony Stark were gen Z

Jenna talks like Eda the Owl Lady

This is one of the benefits you get from coming up through fanfic spaces. It's a great skill to learn!

Also, OP, those are great things to be evaluating and being planful about. My bet is that you're doing great at this. I even make voice habit cheat sheets while editing.

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tumblr being all adults nowadays is so funny because my mutuals are either unemployed chainsmokers or Ezra, Bioengineering PHD Candidate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

one of the important lessons to learn about adult life is that the gap between an unemployed chainsmoker and a bioengineering phd candidate is actually not that large

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Saw this piece of mine from get reposted on here from twitter a while back with a ton of notes, with my Etsy linked which drew a lot of attention to the shop so I wasn't super upset, but here it is from the source instead.

I drew this for my mom who loves cows and the moon and ever since it went viral she's been pestering me to draw more cows. I really liked working like this last year, Procreate is such an incredible drawing application, but lately I've just been feeling the need to bust some paints and colored pencils out and work with my hands a bit more.