Catwing

@seekjustice Sorry, I’m having trouble getting what you’re saying. 🙂  Do you mean that you’re on right now, but won’t be on for the rest of the day?

@rochellaine

Hey! (Sorry I disappeared yesterday!) I’m doing some work this morning, but I’m not going to be on later.

@seekjustice Okay, well I’ve been thinking about it, and maybe the best thing to do would just be write him the same as you would write an Australian, and then let your beta-readers tell you if there’s anything that sounds weird.

It’s hard for us to think of specific instances of slang or whatever, and if we could, you’d have a hard time keeping…[Read more]

@rochellaine

The first thing you should know about Aussies, should you ever visit us, is that we make fun of everyone and everything. Usually Americans 😀

And yes, he is deaf and doesn’t speak, so everything he communicates would be by writing, and though I think people do write more formally than they speak, I actually think he probably would…[Read more]

@kaya-young  I like that part too.  🙂

@ariella-newheart  Thanks for your comments!  And don’t worry about being late.  🙂 🙂

@skredder 🙂 Hooray for shattered trust!  An author’s key to wonderful anxiety and emotional impact on our characters.

But I’m going to go now, I think.  It’s getting late.  Goodnight!  Have fun with the heart-to-heart!

@gh24682468999 @daughteroftheking @catwing

Thanks! I’ll definitely be taking your guy’s advice. Kirin is… weird. He’s my MC, but he’s hard for me to write because I usually write anti-hero MCs and he’s not really an anti-hero. He’s entertaining sometimes, but I’m just not quite as attached to him as my other characters. *sighs* At least I have…[Read more]

@skredder A heart-to-heart?  Oh, that was the most terrifying part of my last book for me to write!  I had been planning it from the beginning and had it all perfect in my head, and then when I finally got to that scene I completely forgot everything I had planned. 🙁  It turned out okay, but though I can’t remember what I had planned I’m still su…[Read more]

@skredder I’m editing my western, which is also going at a slower pace than I’d like. 🙂  However, my pace is not at all steady, so congratulations on that score. 😛

How are your characters behaving?

@skredder Hi!  What are you working on?  How’s it going?

@skredder Hey, are you writing?

@seekjustice Are you going to be on tonight?

@seekjustice Oh, haha!  I forgot he was deaf!  Second what @skredder just said.  In ASL he wouldn’t use as many slang words, but if he knew them before he got deaf he might write them.

Though writing slang isn’t as common, since most people tend to be more formal in writing than in speaking.

However, since he’s in Australia he might just de…[Read more]

@seekjustice I agree with Jen that you could watch American movies, but for slang, and not cultural norms.  Hollywood does not depict normal American life. 😀  So, you can listen to the speech patterns and they might be similar to normal Americans, but what the people do in the movies and their mannerisms and reactions to things are not n…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 Yes, I’d like to continue beta reading all the chapters you put up, if you don’t mind.

@jenwriter17 I’m so sorry!  I’ll be praying for you.

@seekjustice Okay, I wasn’t sure, since I have never met any Australians. 😉  I know a few Canadians and British-educated people (not actually British, but African or Pakistani) and they don’t seem to make fun of language differences as much as we Americans do.

Another “don’t” is don’t have him say “y’all.”  I don’t know if you’ve heard the t…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I think the feeling is mutual 🙂 Australians also make fun of  American English (I remember the first time I was confronted with the word Mom).

I’ll remember that though. He will tease mpeople by calling them bloke

@seekjustice Okay, cool.  Too bad, because I love WWI slang, but it’ll be easier for you, probably. 🙂

Hm, let me see… number one, Don’t let him say “bloke” for the first while, but he will definitely say it as a joke at one point!  Americans love copying and making fun of other English dialects and slang words we’re not used to.  (It do…[Read more]

@rochellaine

No, its for my third Infinity book, so its set in the future, but since my Australian characters are fairly modern Australian the Americans will be too.