How to convey accents in fiction writing: Beyond phonetic spelling – by Louise Harnby…

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This article offers guidance on how to self-edit your fiction writing so that accents don’t become the primary story. Do your characters speak with an accent? All of us speak in ways that are distinctive; we just don’t notice our own accents because they’re ours and we’re used to them.

Oxford Dictionaries defines accent as ‘A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class.’

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