Speech.
Fanfic PeevesThere are certain ways to express how a person is talking through writing.
And it's ALWAYS bothered me that when a person is ANGRY, they have a lot of breaks in their speech.
Example:
"Get. Away. From. Her. Now!"
Many authors do this.
But when I say it aloud or in my head, it just sounds awkward and feels like these pauses between speech are very unnatural.
When I get angry or try to be threatening in a low tone, I don't use that many breaks between my words.
Think about how you'd say it. If you have some super long threat and you're putting a full stop between each word, it just gets long to read and the threat has lost it's effect to threaten people.
It should be more like this:
"Get, away from her now!"
And another pointer, a comma would be a better choice than a full stop. It doesn't truly have to be but I like it more because then I don't have to look at that ugly green squiggly line on my Word Document. =.=
More on speech!
I don't mind it but I don't necessarily appreciate it when people write speech like a script like this:
Kai: Get, away from her now!
Of course, I believe they are a great way of writing, I mean, look at William Shakespeare.
However, I like the usual way of writing speech with speech marks and the overuse of the word 'said'
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