I’ll try lots of tricks to make different people speak differently—like having some characters speak mostly in sentence fragments while others speak in long run-on sentences. Or having some characters use more words with Greek and Latin roots, while others use more Germanic words. Or putting more em dashes into a character’s speech (even if I take them out eventually). One character might always blurt out what they’re feeling, while another might keep circling around the truth. I might also have one character who makes lots of definitive statements, while another speaks in hesitant questions.
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