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sacredeyes , Rosie/wholelotofrosie and Snake/_call_me_snake_.
1. How distinctive is your character's voice? How did you develop it?
These three all have very distinctive voices. Oddly I didn’t develop anything about them intentionally. They sort of evolved on their own. Peninnah, Snake and Rosie aren’t even on the same planet it seems sometimes. Snake is broody, down on the earth, grouchy, arrogant and aggressive except when he breaks down to actually be a sweetheart. Rosie is bubbly, optimistic, fun-loving, self confident and occasionally depressed. Peninnah is humble, naïve, reserved and always self sacrificing. Trying to talk about these three is like comparing apples and …. Hell, steak.
2. Does your character have a regional accent? How do depict this in text?
Snake has a bit of the old west gunslinger growl developed by too much booze and too many cigarettes. He swears like crazy. I don’t explain his voice usually in text but his attitude is very clear in how he chooses words.
Rosie has a deep southern accent that is now picking up the Geordie, North English, Gateshead/Tyneside style. This is cutting off letters in words and a dialect that has some strange words in it. In text I spell things how she would pronounce them. There’s a lot of apostrophes and compounded words.
Peninnah has the slightest English accent and a little bit of a lisp but her voice is normal. Her word choice however is passive and very formal. I don’t use contractions for her much.
3. Any affectations of speech? How did he/she develop them?
Snake doesn’t speak like anyone else. His words are clipped and sentences are usually short unless he’s explaining. This is directly influenced by his military service as an officer and his desire to be left alone. He has a tendency to use metaphor and euphemisms a lot.
Rosie is picking up Brian’s native dialect slowly. This is not only because she is obsessive about the man but because his native accent and dialect is thick and worse when he drinks. She has to engross herself in the dialect to understand the man she’s with.
Peninnah is absolutely free of outside influences as of yet. She is still painfully formal in her speech patterns and clueless when it comes to slangs and euphemisms.
4. Does your character tend to speak quietly, or loudly? Sharply, or melodically? In a monotone, or with dramatic flair?
Snake always speaks quietly. He doesn’t yell unless he’s been driven past anger. His voice is clipped, direct and gravelly. Snake has a lot of inflection in his voice that clearly states his intentions. He can say the same word and have it mean totally different things just by how he says it.
Rosie is loud and bubbly. She’s girly, giggly and her love of fun and excitement is a big part of her voice. She is a squealing fangirl/groupie. She is all dramatics. She's not overly loud in terms of volume but she is loud in presentation.
Peninnah is quiet and demure. Her voice always soothing and soft unless her charge(s) are endangered.
5. Are there circumstances in which your character has difficulty speaking? Any speech impediments?
Snake has no difficulty saying anything to anyone. When he’s very embarrassed and ashamed of his actions he can go quiet but this is extremely rare.
Rosie clams up around the press and official people. She has very thick accents and dialect that can make it hard for others to understand her. However, she only shuts up when she’s sleeping.
Peninnah has a slight speech impediment. She is also easy to silence with flirting or embarrassment. Rarely she is without a kind word.
6. Are there certain circumstances / or certain people to whom your character speaks that make that character's voice change?
Snake’s very different with his wives and children (or anyone he views as a child). His voice can be soothing and comforting or empowering. Toward enemies and people he perceives as a threat he can be silent, aloof, stand-offish and purposefully irritating with his speech.
Rosie pretty much treats everyone the same. She does tend to be more open with people she’s close to and slightly less flamboyant and outgoing. In the presence of press and fans she tends more toward being reserved.
Peninnah is completely unjudgemental and really doesn’t change depending on the person. However, circumstances can make her speech harsher or more comforting depending on what is needed.
7. What emotional circumstances make your character's voice change, and how does it change during those circumstances?
Anger deepens and quiets Snake’s voice. Sex and intimacy tends to make his voice more warm and gravelly.
If Rosie ever loses her bubbliness it is her depression. This happens more when she’s away from her man for too long. On the other hand when she sees him her voice can get high and squeally. The same happens when she’s very happy or excited.
Emotions rarely change Peninnah’s voice at all. She's very calm.
8. How did your character's parentage / ethnicity/ childhood affect his/her speech patterns?
Snake’s use of sweetheart, baby and honey are directly the fault of his father who used the same on his mother. I’m not sure anything else has affected his voice.
Rosie is from the south, Tallahasse, FL and has that accent deep and heavy. Though she is educated her mother was a high school drop out (11th grade). Some of Rosie’s sentence structure and wording reflects this as does her accent. Rosie never or hardly ever swears. She finds it uncouth because her mother taught her that it was improper for a woman to cuss. She will use them as a joke very rarely.
Peninnah has none of these things though she does have a very slight hint of an English accent. Pretty much she is clean slate.
9.Did he/she overcome, or change the speaking habits he/she had earlier in life?
Snake swears more. I’m not sure much else has changed in his vocal patterns.
Rosie has refined her speaking a little over time. She still has the accent. Now she’s picking up the dialect of her partner which is again changing her speaking patterns.
Peninnah is slowly picking up and understanding the nuances of speech but the process is slow.
10. Does your character's manner of speaking display education or the lack thereof? Formality, or informality? What traits show when he/she is speaking?
Snake’s informal, cussing, rough way of speaking would make someone expect that he is not as educated and intelligent as he is. He is very deceiving when it comes to this quantification of abilities.
Rosie’s manner of speaking I think is on par with her education. She’s informal and rather improper in her speaking. However, she is by no means stupid or uneducated. She is unrefined and very worldly. It is her worldly side I think that has kept her speech as it is.
Peninnah is very formal. Though she’s never been educated her choice of words would make people think she is highly educated. The truth is that her long life of observing has given her a great amount of knowledge and allows her to give off the impression of education in her speech patterns.
sacredeyes , Rosie/wholelotofrosie and Snake/_call_me_snake_.1. How distinctive is your character's voice? How did you develop it?
These three all have very distinctive voices. Oddly I didn’t develop anything about them intentionally. They sort of evolved on their own. Peninnah, Snake and Rosie aren’t even on the same planet it seems sometimes. Snake is broody, down on the earth, grouchy, arrogant and aggressive except when he breaks down to actually be a sweetheart. Rosie is bubbly, optimistic, fun-loving, self confident and occasionally depressed. Peninnah is humble, naïve, reserved and always self sacrificing. Trying to talk about these three is like comparing apples and …. Hell, steak.
2. Does your character have a regional accent? How do depict this in text?
Snake has a bit of the old west gunslinger growl developed by too much booze and too many cigarettes. He swears like crazy. I don’t explain his voice usually in text but his attitude is very clear in how he chooses words.
Rosie has a deep southern accent that is now picking up the Geordie, North English, Gateshead/Tyneside style. This is cutting off letters in words and a dialect that has some strange words in it. In text I spell things how she would pronounce them. There’s a lot of apostrophes and compounded words.
Peninnah has the slightest English accent and a little bit of a lisp but her voice is normal. Her word choice however is passive and very formal. I don’t use contractions for her much.
3. Any affectations of speech? How did he/she develop them?
Snake doesn’t speak like anyone else. His words are clipped and sentences are usually short unless he’s explaining. This is directly influenced by his military service as an officer and his desire to be left alone. He has a tendency to use metaphor and euphemisms a lot.
Rosie is picking up Brian’s native dialect slowly. This is not only because she is obsessive about the man but because his native accent and dialect is thick and worse when he drinks. She has to engross herself in the dialect to understand the man she’s with.
Peninnah is absolutely free of outside influences as of yet. She is still painfully formal in her speech patterns and clueless when it comes to slangs and euphemisms.
4. Does your character tend to speak quietly, or loudly? Sharply, or melodically? In a monotone, or with dramatic flair?
Snake always speaks quietly. He doesn’t yell unless he’s been driven past anger. His voice is clipped, direct and gravelly. Snake has a lot of inflection in his voice that clearly states his intentions. He can say the same word and have it mean totally different things just by how he says it.
Rosie is loud and bubbly. She’s girly, giggly and her love of fun and excitement is a big part of her voice. She is a squealing fangirl/groupie. She is all dramatics. She's not overly loud in terms of volume but she is loud in presentation.
Peninnah is quiet and demure. Her voice always soothing and soft unless her charge(s) are endangered.
5. Are there circumstances in which your character has difficulty speaking? Any speech impediments?
Snake has no difficulty saying anything to anyone. When he’s very embarrassed and ashamed of his actions he can go quiet but this is extremely rare.
Rosie clams up around the press and official people. She has very thick accents and dialect that can make it hard for others to understand her. However, she only shuts up when she’s sleeping.
Peninnah has a slight speech impediment. She is also easy to silence with flirting or embarrassment. Rarely she is without a kind word.
6. Are there certain circumstances / or certain people to whom your character speaks that make that character's voice change?
Snake’s very different with his wives and children (or anyone he views as a child). His voice can be soothing and comforting or empowering. Toward enemies and people he perceives as a threat he can be silent, aloof, stand-offish and purposefully irritating with his speech.
Rosie pretty much treats everyone the same. She does tend to be more open with people she’s close to and slightly less flamboyant and outgoing. In the presence of press and fans she tends more toward being reserved.
Peninnah is completely unjudgemental and really doesn’t change depending on the person. However, circumstances can make her speech harsher or more comforting depending on what is needed.
7. What emotional circumstances make your character's voice change, and how does it change during those circumstances?
Anger deepens and quiets Snake’s voice. Sex and intimacy tends to make his voice more warm and gravelly.
If Rosie ever loses her bubbliness it is her depression. This happens more when she’s away from her man for too long. On the other hand when she sees him her voice can get high and squeally. The same happens when she’s very happy or excited.
Emotions rarely change Peninnah’s voice at all. She's very calm.
8. How did your character's parentage / ethnicity/ childhood affect his/her speech patterns?
Snake’s use of sweetheart, baby and honey are directly the fault of his father who used the same on his mother. I’m not sure anything else has affected his voice.
Rosie is from the south, Tallahasse, FL and has that accent deep and heavy. Though she is educated her mother was a high school drop out (11th grade). Some of Rosie’s sentence structure and wording reflects this as does her accent. Rosie never or hardly ever swears. She finds it uncouth because her mother taught her that it was improper for a woman to cuss. She will use them as a joke very rarely.
Peninnah has none of these things though she does have a very slight hint of an English accent. Pretty much she is clean slate.
9.Did he/she overcome, or change the speaking habits he/she had earlier in life?
Snake swears more. I’m not sure much else has changed in his vocal patterns.
Rosie has refined her speaking a little over time. She still has the accent. Now she’s picking up the dialect of her partner which is again changing her speaking patterns.
Peninnah is slowly picking up and understanding the nuances of speech but the process is slow.
10. Does your character's manner of speaking display education or the lack thereof? Formality, or informality? What traits show when he/she is speaking?
Snake’s informal, cussing, rough way of speaking would make someone expect that he is not as educated and intelligent as he is. He is very deceiving when it comes to this quantification of abilities.
Rosie’s manner of speaking I think is on par with her education. She’s informal and rather improper in her speaking. However, she is by no means stupid or uneducated. She is unrefined and very worldly. It is her worldly side I think that has kept her speech as it is.
Peninnah is very formal. Though she’s never been educated her choice of words would make people think she is highly educated. The truth is that her long life of observing has given her a great amount of knowledge and allows her to give off the impression of education in her speech patterns.
