#but it’s kind of a POV thing…. like with Augustus it’s arguably Better to write out her dialogue of what she’s Trying to say | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

brittlebutch · 6 days ago

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figuring out how to Write a characters speech impediment is a puzzle. bc like, my own speech is riddled with disfluency, articulation errors, and disorganization so Theoretically i should know what im talking about but the Problem is that i Feel myself fucking up more than i Hear myself fucking up. like when i know im completely inarticulate, i Feel that in the muscles more than i actually Hear how im sounding to other people, so then when it comes to trying to Write it I have no idea what the hell i sound like outside of “generally inarticulate” :/

#N posts stuff #i mean. this is two sided sort of #bc tbh most of the time id argue that trying Too Hard to write out a speech impediment is more Frustrating than Evocative to read back #like when people really go all out in writing a character stutter multiple times over every single word like.#i feel that Detracts more than it adds so you don’t want to focus So much on writing it out that it becomes a pain in the ass #and it’s a Good thing to write a character and Show how it Feels when their speech becomes impeded than just Telling what it sounds like #in flat overly-spelled-out dialogue like there’s a lot of Use in exposing the Feel of it instead #but it’s kind of a POV thing…. like with Augustus it’s arguably Better to write out her dialogue of what she’s Trying to say #and then Around that show the way she Feels her tongue/mouth/jaw/brain stalling out around the words she’s trying to say #but then from Changeling’s POV of augustus speaking Arguably it’d be better Then to write out the fucked up dialogue #so that way it doesn’t seem like her speech impediment Vanishes all of a sudden #but also that’s Hard bc. like i said. i Know i sound like a freak but i have a much harder time tracking the actual Sounds im making #when i’m fucking it up. idk it’s annoying.#i get paranoid about recordings of myself so i. Don’t Do That but maybe i just need to figure out a way to get over myself #and just record myself talking so that i can play Back the sounds and try to figure out how to transcribe that. perhaps.

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