: Re: How to create varying, yet realistic, speech patterns Different characters speak differently. If someone reads me a letter written by an immediate relative, I can tell right away who wrote it.

@Hamaas631

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You can work to 'hear' the dialogue in your head as the characters are speaking. It'll slow you down a little, until you get used to it, but then it becomes routine. But I think it's best if you think of them as movie or TV characters (good ones) rather than real people, because real conversations are totally brutal (transcribe a few and see).

You can refine your technique by reading your dialogue aloud after you've written it. You might actually want to set up a reading with some friends, like it was a play, to see if everything stays consistent.

But I think you're right to be cautious with it all. A little dialect goes a LONG way.

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