Sometimes like a really bad attempt at a southern drawl or a Brooklyn accent really pulls me out of a story.

Sure, that’s another problem entirely, that it just LOOKS awkward and reads awkwardly. I have a lot of family from Oklahoma, and the way they speak, to my ear, is fun and bouncy. But to actually write it on the page, it looks like I am saying it sounds ignorant. The only way to really make it work is to give that dialogue to someone as fun, feisty and noble as Lady Blackhawk.

It really is something to be done with care, is my main point. There are issues of self-worth wrapped up in dialect and it is often used as a tool to alienate and diminish people, so being sensitive about it is completely understandable.