: Re: Writing a character that only the protagonist hears/understands (kinda like R2D2) How do you write a character that only the protagonist can hear and/or understand? I'm writing a story with this

@Sarah872

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This really comes down to point of view. If you are writing a first-person narrative (from the point of view of the girl), or a third-person close-perspective narrative (also from the point of view of the girl), you will need to provide the doll's dialog, because you are in the protagonist's head, and will see and hear things the way the protagonist does.

If you are writing a first-person narrative from a different person's point of view, or a third person limited point of view, you will be viewing the protagonist from the outside. In this case you will see and hear only what the girl herself says and does. In this case, the doll will appear as just like an ordinary doll.

This is a bit different from R2D2, because R2D2 does talk, we just don't speak his language. A wholly imaginary dialog doesn't make any (external) sounds. It's also quite a bit harder in text than in a movie, because in a book, you often have access to a character's inner life in a way that is not as usual in a movie.

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