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Topic : Re: How do I differentiate between the "voices" of my characters in a multi-character POV? I'm currently writing a novel with 3-4 character POVs in it - two male, two female. Each have different - selfpublishingguru.com

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How do the people speaking around you, wherever you are, speak differently? How do your favorite authors give characters different voices?

Here are a few ways your characters might differ:

Different vocabularies
Different sentence lengths and complexities
Different speeds
Verbosity vs brevity
Some think before they speak, while others speak their immediate, unfiltered thoughts
Some use metaphors, some are more direct and clear
Some talk about higher issues, others about concrete details
Some are storytellers, others talk about ideas and hypotheticals

Those are just off the top of my head, before my morning caffeine.


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