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Mystery: October 12, 2016 Issue [#7903]

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 This week: Hearing Voices
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Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.
~ Melissa Rauch

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
~ Benjamin Disraeli


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How do you determine your character's voice?


I don't mean in the written sense, I mean literal. Can you hear your character speak? Do you invent the sound of their voice? I ask, and I'm rather curious about this, because up until now I've set the tone of my character's voice. Whenever I wrote a dialogue I knew what I wanted to hear and it became a simple matter of dealing with such characters. Never in my dreams did I imagine a character to sound any other way than the way I chose.

Until now.

With the Prep (Yes, here I go again with "October Novel Prep ChallengeOpen in new Window.! Only because it's given me a lot of food for thought. *Bigsmile*) I trudged right along the curvy path of my story, stumbling a few times, but catching myself before falling on my face. Then came the part of Character Voice. It means letting your character introduce themselves, in first person, to the reader or even the writer. Simple! Most of the details are known to me and I figured, putting them together should be rather easy.

What I haven't counted on and was shocked by, was the actual voice I heard while I wrote. Unique, rough around the edges, no nonsense type of voice... That was only the beginning. I played along, typing as I heard the words and then my character slapped me in my face. As he was telling the reader where he was from, devastation formed on my own face when I realized that he's from Texas. Texas! Not the destination I had in mind. Not even close.

Charting out a character profile proved rather easy for me and I had a few different places picked out for the living/growing up situation, but when my fingers started typing, I chose North Carolina. Simple. I'm familiar with it. A bit of research and we'd be good to go, I figured. No one ever mentioned or even thought Texas! How did I pick a character who decided to flip the script on me? Either way, I had no other choice but to let him be from Texas. Since he didn't specify a particular city, I poked around on the newsfeed to see who's from there and if they could help me out.

Since Trinkets came out, I had to resort to bribery in order to get something, anything useful out of my WdC friends. Most answers were along the lines of 'big state'. *Laugh* Very helpful. Nevertheless, I found a few people who are familiar with the state and the city of Houston. In time, I'll get a better grasp on this moving situation, but until then, I'm hoping that my characters won't have any more big surprises for me.

To find out what else I've been dealing with when it comes to my character, stop by "Drama Newsletter (October 12, 2016)Open in new Window.

'Til next time!
~ Gaby *WitchHat*




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