8 Feb
2001
8 Feb
'01
2:45 p.m.
Mistral said:
The characters _do_ sound different - at least they do to me. It's one of the reasons I bang on about voice when it comes to discussing fanfic. In a really good fanfic, if two of the regular characters are having a conversation, it ideally ought to be possible to strip out everything except the dialogue and still tell who's talking.
Actually, in a really great fanfic it should be possible to remove the character names and still know who's talking.
I suppose the character junkies' retort would be that although you keep
the
same words, they get delivered in a completely different way
Case in point: if anyone except Avon were replying "Well, hooray for us" in response to Gan's "I think we make a good team" (Time Squad)
-(Y)