Schemes and Dreams
Hey everybody.👋 Welcome to my second story. I'm hard at work on getting things ready for this one. I thought I would go ahead and start the thread and give you an idea what's going on. I'll post occa...
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As for the villains, I think their over-the-topness is perfect, and kind of a theme of the story :) this story is all about over-the-top!
About Octavia's dialogue,
About Octavia's dialogue,
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I appreciate everything @haneul has said.
One thought I had, being from a big international city and now living in a small town, is that when you live in a big city you hear people talking differently from one another all the time. Everyone's got their own "accent" so to speak, whether it's the accent of their home country, or their home neighborhood, or the jargon of the people they hang out with. Racial differences are part of that but only part. You've created a big-city ensemble cast from many walks of life for your story. So if you think about the whole ensemble and the diversity of how they speak, you have a choice whether to show their individual accents by how words are spelled, or what slang they choose, etc. It does land a little oddly to have only Octavia's accent spelled out in that way.
I appreciate everything @haneul has said.
One thought I had, being from a big international city and now living in a small town, is that when you live in a big city you hear people talking differently from one another all the time. Everyone's got their own "accent" so to speak, whether it's the accent of their home country, or their home neighborhood, or the jargon of the people they hang out with. Racial differences are part of that but only part. You've created a big-city ensemble cast from many walks of life for your story. So if you think about the whole ensemble and the diversity of how they speak, you have a choice whether to show their individual accents by how words are spelled, or what slang they choose, etc. It does land a little oddly to have only Octavia's accent spelled out in that way.
