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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > Fiction Writing: Advice and Discussion
 
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oddspelling
May 31, 2009

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment

Nautatrol Rx posted:

Do you have to project your self-deprecation on everyone else so frequently? It's really annoying and serves no useful purpose.

Also, you're wrong on the Clockwork Orange stuff. Even uneducated people can write accents well by accident, especially their own. It's a learned skill, and the only way to learn it is to attempt to do it. Deifying authors will only lead to crippling your ability to learn.

I generally dislike it when authors write dialog (much less narration) in patois. When done well it can really add a lot to a story, but the majority of the time it just comes across as awkward and forced. People in books by-and-large don't speak the way people in real life do, and shoehorning an accent or dialect can push it even deeper into the uncanny valley.

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