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quiet-admirer · 7 months ago

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One of the most genuinely difficult things about writing historical fiction so far is breaking my habit of using "like" as a filler word to make internal or spoken dialogue sound more casual or to soften statements 🥲 I was truly a victim of the millennial "like" pattern of speech and it will probably date me as such until the day I die

#The last 2 days I've finally been able to write again yay!#I think I need to immerse myself in early hardcore scene interviews for a week solid to really get the dialect/s lodged in my head #It doesn't help that the Sam/Sebastian thing I've been writing forever has a similar tone of informality #but is heavily influenced by the more 90s-2010s speech patterns and colloquialisms with some 80s for flavor #So that's what's so easy to reach for now after writing that for 4 years but I think it's going to be a fun challenge in the end 🥲#However I will say the voice of the kid who did the opening interview in the decline of w civ is etched into my brain lmao

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