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Great progress, Susan!! And a great story. Thanks for the link!
hee hee hee 5 words short!
my oldest son LOVES rick riordan so much…
sorry- tangent- anyway, that voice sounds difficult to capture! sounds like you've done your research, though! ๐
@Sheri Thanks for all your encouragement! You go girl!
@aspiring LOL Yeah, I have a fangirl thing for Riordan (shhh!).
WTG, Sue! You're making great progress!
Wow, great progress and very interesting sounding voice. I can't wait to hear more about it!
What a cool graphic that meter is!
@Sharon Thanks so much for the encouragement!
@Lindsay The voice is all kinds of fun, now that I'm getting a handle on it. ๐
@Matthew I'm such a geek. ๐
Okay, this super sekrit business is starting to kill me when you drop tempting hints like this. I LOVE the idea of an old-fashioned Irish voice. Great examples of research for it, too. Reminds me to keep my eyes open when I'm watching movie for good examples of voice – I've found a couple of my characters' voices that way.
Really good point about sticking with close third person for MG instead of first person.
Oh I'd love to see your progress chart, but it doesn't show up?
@Margo Sorry to be such a tease! But I want to have it written before I start talking specifics…Also, for some reason my word-o-meter doesn't show up in Internet Explorer (it does in Google Chrome). Maybe before next week's update I can figure out why.
Writing Irish would be fun. I love the sing-song cadence of Irish and Scottish speech. This is a case where reading aloud would definitely help in revising.
I have a MG novel that's a story-within-a-story, and uses two distinct voices…one modern, and the other with an old fairy-tale voice. It's fun and challenging to try to balance them out. Good luck!!
@Rick I remember that fairy-tale voice! It was just as fun to read! I am afeared of reading this voice aloud, though. The accent is so much prettier in my head. ๐
One of my critique partners writes Irish accents often. *LOVE* it. Good job on the story progress. Write now, revise later.
@Natasha Awesome! There will be lots of revisions later, for sure. ๐
ooo… good luck with the sekrit project! ๐ that's a really cool challenge you guys are doing! <3
Congrats on your progress this week! I agree that voice is something you master through writing and rewriting.
Woohoo!! Yay for super sekrit project! I'm cheering you on for a myriad of reasons. ๐
@LTM Thanks!!
@Ghenet Good luck with your writing progress too!
@KMarie You are in the sekrit club, so shhhh! ๐ p.s. I need to send you that voice chapter!!