: Re: How do I avoid making all my characters speak like me? I'm writing a story and it is really hard to avoid putting my own speech patterns into my stories. Especially for the mean and dark

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I can't tell you what to write for the character's speech patterns, but I can say that the best way to learn how to write a character's voice that isn't your own is to think like that character would, so you write like that character would. Also, when you have multiple characters, it's always a good idea to get a good description in your mind of each character as an individual so, before you type something a character would say, you can think: would he actually say this?

I usually write down a brief description of each character so I have it to reference whenever I need to.

Hope this helps.

This article provides some other useful tips. So does this one.

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