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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Too much realism with a dialect or accent can make text tedious to read. A writer has to be clever about it. I just set aside a book (not an indie work...wait...let me think. No, it is indie.) Anyway, to show that the guy was from the south, when he spoke it was constantly, "runnin' walkin' talkin'" Most gerunds suffered from a silent "g" syndrome. Here and there would have been okay and using y'all is standard in southern text...but it began to drive me nuts. It was especially annoying when the main female started doing it (and she wasn't from the south. This is what I mean about making sure all your characters have a unique voice and stick with it.)
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Couldn't agree more. Nothing will make me throw a book across the room (OK,
figuratively if it's an ereader) quicker than phonetic representations of accents that go on forever. Especially a dreaded apostropocalypse. I can do accents/dialects in my head if you (the author) just give me a few hints that I should.
