: Re: How can I capture the voice of an insane person? In a story I am writing an insane character speaks to another. Unfortunately, I don't know how I can convey a person's insanity through their

In my own tries to create horror, I used "insanity" as one of the factor to create the proper horror setting:

"What did you do to Pavel?" asked Janette
"Sleeping, hehehe, he is sleeping. Sleeping!"
"I donâ€™t understand what you mean"
"Sleeping! I put him to sleep! Now he is sleeping, hahaha!"

Remember, that most horror stories are really inaccurate about mental illnesses. If you will read about schizophrenia, you will realise that person suffering from that is only perceived as more dangerous. Whereas in horror setting, such person is (almost) always very dangerous to their surroundings.
So, being you, I would not care (that much) about accurate description of mental illness. I would go for perception of such illness and deep beliefs about such illness. Do not forget, that purpose of horror is to scare people. Not to educate them (sadly)

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