Speech.

Fanfic Peeves

There 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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missgalaxxy99 #1
Chapter 78: I hate it when there r alot of "" word
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" WHAT ARE YOU DOING HER YOU ING GET AWAY FROM MY ING ROOM AND DONT FORGET TO CLOSE THE ING DOOR ">eh?
missgalaxxy99 #2
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missgalaxxy99 #3
Chapter 50: 99,9% if the fanfics have that scene when drunken boys attack the girl in the middle of the night and suddenly her superman comes and Saves her
missgalaxxy99 #4
Chapter 41: Omg im dying i swear you are something
missgalaxxy99 #5
Chapter 29: 99,9% of the boring school life FFs starts when the Mom tells her daughter to get up cuz she is late
missgalaxxy99 #6
Chapter 22: 99,9% of the ff, the Girl lost her Parents in a car accident LOL, or because her father drinks Alcohol too much LOL
missgalaxxy99 #7
Chapter 2: I agree with you 100%
Mayybelline
#8
Chapter 25: omg this really bothers me as well and it makes me give up on the fic because if they use it too much it gets super annoying. I just want to read fluently in English in my head...
4ever_exotic
#9
Chapter 27: I have two friends who are scared of thunder and they would cling onto me whenever the thunder starts roaring. Honestly it's a bit annoying cause I personally find the sound of thunder and rain really calming. LOL I'm so weird XD
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#10
Chapter 78: Man, I was supposed to do hw (thank the goodness, its due Friday), but I stumbled upon this and cracked up on some of these