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8 Steps to Nail a Character Voice (even for people totally unlike you)

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Timeline
0:00 Intro
0:30 4 Common Mistakes
2:08 Generate Your Character’s Metaphors and Similes
3:17 Identify What they Never Say Directly
5:24 Active/Passive Divide
7:09 Find the Disfluencies
8:20 List What Your Character Says Most Often
9:58 Nail Your Character’s Syntax
11:48 Make Their Social Position Influence Their Speech
13:45 Adjusting for Time Periods