Letharg
Troubadour
Hi fellow scribes!
In my current WIP I have a criminal character which I need to find a voice for. This is a non PoV so it's not too important to get it perfect but I am looking for a few variations of language that I can have him use.
Some background: He's from the southern parts of current America. He's white (his girlfriend is a racist), a drug addict and small time criminal who's been selling drugs for years. He currently lives somewhere in the Rust Belt and is in hiding because he stole some of the drugs he was supposed to sell.
So how would vary his voice? What words could be throw into his speech to show his criminal background while still retaining readability in the novel?
Also while your at it, how would you have other characters with some sort of dialect speak? How would you vary their voices in regard to their background and the time they are living in? It's always difficult to write slang/dialect in an efficient way so I, and probably others, would find it interesting to see how you deal with it.
In my current WIP I have a criminal character which I need to find a voice for. This is a non PoV so it's not too important to get it perfect but I am looking for a few variations of language that I can have him use.
Some background: He's from the southern parts of current America. He's white (his girlfriend is a racist), a drug addict and small time criminal who's been selling drugs for years. He currently lives somewhere in the Rust Belt and is in hiding because he stole some of the drugs he was supposed to sell.
So how would vary his voice? What words could be throw into his speech to show his criminal background while still retaining readability in the novel?
Also while your at it, how would you have other characters with some sort of dialect speak? How would you vary their voices in regard to their background and the time they are living in? It's always difficult to write slang/dialect in an efficient way so I, and probably others, would find it interesting to see how you deal with it.