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What Not To Do, True Grit Writers
Phonetically spell LaBoeuf's dialogue. Not only is it visually ugly, I feel like an idiot mentally sounding out what he's saying. So even if your characterization and prose are decent to good, I'm not going to keep reading.
I know, accents are hard. I sympathize. (That is the reason the plotbunny about LaBoeuf telling his unit about Maddie Ross and having them all thing he's exaggerating is not ever going to get out of my head.)
ETA: Post about writing accents and dialect here, via![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1)
chomiji .
I know, accents are hard. I sympathize. (That is the reason the plotbunny about LaBoeuf telling his unit about Maddie Ross and having them all thing he's exaggerating is not ever going to get out of my head.)
ETA: Post about writing accents and dialect here, via
chomiji .
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I never knew I wanted this, but now you've mentioned it, I can just imagine the guys' completely disbelieving faces. No way is LaBoef telling the truth, no way.
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Now imagine that actually sounding like they talk.
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of course, I'm sure these are men who argue about the times they've had to drink water from a hoof-print, aren't they?
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And yeah, it almost never ends well to phonetically spell out a heavy accent. It's more effective to use the occasional apostrophe for cut off words or slang. A little goes a long way.
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http://saraht.dreamwidth.org/754499.html?#cutid1
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6649060/1/Oh_How_Bright_the_Path
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6717838/1/What_a_Peace_Is_Mine
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