Six Reasons to Fall into a Character’s Voice
So you’ve got a lot of characters to choose from, are good at falling into voice for just about any of them—and next thing you know, you find yourself doing so. I’m not talking about at the game table,...
View ArticleScening in Two Voices
When getting ready for this week’s session, I found myself thinking about ways to describe a scene or a sequence of events, and how I could get them to work together. On the one hand, you’ve got...
View ArticleImpractical Applications (Voice, Description and Snarky Tour Guides)
Yesterday, I talked about using a descriptive voice and a character voice to work with interactions and contrasts in tone. It’s not a coincidence that I came up with it this week. One of the places my...
View ArticleThe Double Life of In-World Slang
One of my favorite things about new worlds, particularly settings with a subculture-high, inner-city emphasis to them, was all the nifty slang I was going to run into. People would throw around all...
View ArticleGuest Post: Journaling In Character
Tonight’s post is brought to us by regular commenter Shinali, lady of the prolific (and hilarious) IC journals; she kindly offered this one to me after my request for guest posts a while back....
View ArticleTelling a Story From Multiple Viewpoints
There are some stories that just can’t be told from one perspective—there’s too much going on, and no way the main character can be there to see all of it. That’s where multiple viewpoints come in—and...
View ArticleWednesday Night Writing Exercise: Describing a Voice
Tonight’s is an odd little riff—an attempt to describe, not a character herself, but a character’s voice. It is not that she is too quiet, as that her words do not fight with the other noises about...
View ArticleWednesday Night Writing Exercise: Tuyet on the Enemy
Sometimes, my writing exercises just slip out of me when I’m thinking about something else. This was one of those weeks—I was looking again at the idea of the archenemy, somehow I slipped to the voice...
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