Capturing voices for characters

Dialog -- Capturing voices for characters by Wen Spencer I got a question posed to me: Hi Wen. You keep mentioning that you answer questions on writing, I thought I d ask one here. How do you manage to write different "voices"? Reading your dialogs, I... More

Dialog -- Capturing voices for characters by Wen Spencer I got a question posed to me: Hi Wen. You keep mentioning that you answer questions on writing, I thought I d ask one here. How do you manage to write different "voices"? Reading your dialogs, I can usually tell what Ukiah said as compared to what Rennie or Max said (even without checking who said it). And you do it without resorting to accents (except as a flavoring). When I tried writing dialogs, people told me that the character which was my avatar had really vibrant representative dialog. The other characters, and I admit it, were flat, and sounded a bit like me trying to portray someone else. So, the question is, how do you write different people that sound so different? Any general tips for newbies? Thanks, (name withheld by request) Good question, one that is hard to answer -- mostly because I m never sure if I succeed in doing it myself. People have natural vocabularies, point of views, and speech rhythms. For exa Less