Character Development Pt: 1

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   Now, if there is one thing we all want is our books to be is a hit! Of course, for most people, it is the way you write. What I find a lot of people like in today's time is quirky and out of the ordinary writing or storytelling. Well, guess what? You've already been doing that! 
   How you want your story to play out will be your writing style! If your story to be a POV one, that's cool! If you want your character to have the mind of a six-year-old, go for it! But I may heed a warning, NEVER MAKE YOUR CHARACTER SOUND OUT OF AGE AND PERSONALITY! If there is one thing no writer should never do is place their character out of their range! 

   My English teacher had taught me setting, time, personality, and age can define their speech. You don't want a 21st-century six-year-old sounding like a 70-year-old man. Now I will define this into the four categories,

Setting: where they are

Time: Era or year they live in

Personality: How they are

Age: the person of (this mindset) and ae should sound like what?

   First, setting. Why I say this is simply because of a change of scenery can modify the way someone talks. For example, you're in Alaska or a Tundra. It is cold, and your jacket is not doing much. When you talk, you'll stutter because of you jittering. Or you could be at the Eiffel Tower. Its astonishing height and beautiful metalwork fill you with wonder. They can be spilling words of amazement or have no words(hence the compound word 'breathtaking')
Now you see how the scenery of a story can change the way they speak.

   Now, on to the next topic, Time. 
   Time can help you understand their vocabulary. Different cultures and time had their way of speaking. I want to use a popular book to explain. Junie B. Jones By Barbara Park is a great example. If you've read this book series, you know that it is about a little girl named June Beatrice Jones who changes it to a nickname of Junie B.
   She goes on adventures with her great stubbornness and happy six-year-old mind. What Barbara Park does is make the text, mindset, and pronunciation sound like a six-year-old. From spelling things wrong to mishearing words and phrases. Junie B. Jones is a perfect book to describe the mind of a late '90s kid to an early '20s.
   As another example. A child from the 19th century (1800) may have a broader vocabulary than you or Junie B. They lived in a different time, a time where what you said and how you said it was different. Of course, he may say words with a deeper meaning or something in a more complex explanation. You still want them a childish mindset or demeanor.
   Like "Come, Lillian, let us play in the cherry orchard!" or "May I have a spoon of sugar, please?" They can sound like they know more than they should but can have a childish favor or likely hold in it.

And remember, this is your story.
Everything you want, you put in.
Don't let your story loose its charm in it.

This is part 1 because the other two are very long, so yeah part 1 complete! :)

(Btw, I know a lot of people want to know how to do the space without the double space. It is Shift+Enter or Shift+Ctrl+Enter)



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