What Not To Do, True Grit Writers

[redbrunja]

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 chomiji .

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

"So she shot the thief who killed her father after the snake bit her?" "No, no, she shot him, feel down a sinkhole, got bit, and then lost her arm." "Was the before or after you shot a man from x yards away? Because that never gets more believable."

Now imagine that actually sounding like they talk.

[silver-spotted.livejournal.com]

amazing!

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?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Without question.