How to Write Descriptions With Distinct Character Voice 

same here. Thank you

I do the same thing! I as the narrator have been told that I am rather snarky.

I personally do it the same way as in first person, just using third person instead. It's as simple as swapping out I for a name or a pronoun.

One of Umberto Eco's Six Walks In The Fictional Woods is all about delaying tactics.

I'm also writing about a 20-book-long series but mine currently has about 30 stories and different main characters and i have hard time keeping track of them. Can i ask how do you manage to keep track of all 60 stories? It seems a lot of work. How short/long are each of them? Also are they connected? How do you decide their place on this 20-book-long series?

@@turkishisthesunlanguage well, each story is about 30 pages in Google docs, and they all have a common factor to them. It’s inspired by the fazbear frights with FNAF, and the stories outline the history of Orbear Entertainment. I keep a Google doc with a list in the following format: 8. Claustrophobia (the name of the first story is the name of the book, and this links to the document which has all three stories plus the epilogue) - Claustrophobia (links to the document for the story alone) - Achluophobia (same as above) - Coulrophobia (same as above) I also put the stories in with a common theme. For example, book 8 is “what is your biggest fear?” And each story outlines the protagonist’s fear and how it comes to bite them. Another thing I do is to have documents outlining their plots and characters linked below the stories, with their short blurb below them, too. Here is an excerpt of one of the blurbs that shows the basic plot without going into too much detail (the story is called “Memory”): What do you wish for most? It’s a question Serena and Veronica think they have the answer to. Serena wants nothing more than to be left alone by the swarms of kids following her-and Veronica wishes for fame and recognition. But in the twisted world of The Mystery of Orbear Entertainment, their hearts’ deepest desires have an unexpected cost. Does that help? If you have more questions, I’m happy to answer :D

@@turkishisthesunlanguage also, it does help I have an “exceptional” memory. I basically have the order and blurbs memorized, but it’s been a while since I’ve read it, so it is kind of blurry lol I recommend trying to give each story a theme that organizes them into groups to help it stay organized :D

@@Sapphire864 Thank you so much for the answers! I see that your stories' lengths are nearly the same since you wrote that there are 3 stories + epilogue in each book but mines lengths are extremely diverse and that's a huge reason why I can't even remember which character was in which story. A story can take only one third of a book while another story can last up to 4 books as i've calculated and it is so hard to create new themes, new conflicts, new villians, new settings, new aims of characters for every story while at the same time combining these together, making sure no main character has the same goal and keeping these all in mind. Are all of your 60 stories horror themed with FNAF animatronics involved? I only have 2 horror stories out of 30 and i have hard time making the reader scared. Can you help me on how to make the reader scared? I've watched tons of videos on that but most didn't help me. I also have hard time writing comedy. It is one of the hardest things to write. I think writing comedy comes from an intellectual mind and it seems i lack it 💀 I laugh at everything and i can't come up with jokes/good sense of humour etc. Are you skilled at writing humour/comedy or do you know any person who is? Also, thank you for that "blurbs" idea. (i didn’t know the meaning of it, i searched up its meaning in my native language) I will try to write a blurb for every 30 story, about a paragraph or two on the basic plot of each story, i think that is also used at the back of the books to see what's it's about. But i'm not really sure how blurbs can help it? I mean, arent they just explaining what the story's basic plot is? I already have that in my mind- what i don't have and forget often is the aims of the characters, what will happen to them, the overall story elements, the chronological order of events etc. You may say then write them down but i just cant. I have a huge writer's block going on and i can't escape from it :( I really want to write but laziness comes in the way... Overall, thank you so much! Hope you'll help me a bit on how to make the reader scared, how to write comedy, how to keep the full story with every details in mind without having to write them down and how to escape from writer's block...

@@turkishisthesunlanguage I’m not super experienced with making the readers “scared”, and it doesn’t help that reading stories genuinely has never scared me. I do think the word choice and general description can help that, but as I said, I’m not too sure. I’ve been working on the basic story and using advice for the horror part, so I recommend trying to find someone who can help you edit that. Maybe a horror enthusiast or something! Out of my 60 stories, i would say of the ones I have planned out, around 5 aren’t horror and simply build the important characters. I’d like to think I can write humor well, but I honestly don’t know. Here is my best advice: think about what makes you laugh. Look for memes or funny things and analyze them. Try to break them down and look for common factors or repeated patterns. In a FNAF animation I was watching, I realized the protagonist’s humor was very sarcastic and straight forward, and I realized that’s my favorite kind of comedy. An example of sarcasm or blunt humor would be the line (from the “Sister Location Animation” by Dominoes Studio) “all apart of my childhood trauma” or “why is that even an option?!” When presented with eXoTiC bUtTeRs. So, another tip for the comedy is just ask, “what fits? What makes ME laugh? What commonly makes my target audience laugh?” (For example, researching popular comedy movies your audience watches and get INSPIRED BY (not steal! Stealing is bad! Lol) the humor. Example: Taylor, who is basically me but depressed and an artist boi, has a very deadpan humor. One of his lines is “sometimes I question my father’s sanity, but then I realise I don’t need to because I know he’s insane.” This is due to his father being… well, tmooe’s William Afton lmbo. Also, realise is spelled in the British context due to Taylor being British. Just something I like to do to contrast my character voices, similarly is Cady, who is Latina, so she sometimes says things in Spanish or uses Spanish terms/words to shorten sentences. I also do identify with the problem with knowing the plot and story in your heart, but writers block keeps you from writing it. That happens to me all the time. What I do is simply scribble down a simplified version of the story (for example, if I were Scott Cawthon, I would write, ‘Mike Schmidt, a dude low on his luck, gets a job at the local, abandoned pizza place, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, but soon finds out that these animatronics are murderous possessed beans.’ Well, probably not like that, but something along those lines) Then I take this and go forward with it. I ask question I know I know the answer to (to start with) and then answer them the best I can. For example, “WHY are these animatronics possessed?” “In this universe, when a child dies, their soul fuses to the nearest object. In this case, the kids William Afton oofed were stuffed inside of his animatronics, and they fused with the metal, their agony giving the machines life.” And such. This usually helps me, but if it doesn’t, I’d be glad to help with other things I do, too. Also, just an idea to help keep track of the characters and easily separate them yet tie them together: try giving them a voice. Figure out, “what is their accent? What is their tone of voice? What is their personality? What happened in their life that may have affected this?” Also, here what I do for the different beliefs and misbeliefs: In the book ‘Oliver Orbear’ (aka fReDdY tHe SpAcE pOlAr BeAr), the theme is (in basic words) “imagine being dead lol” In the title story, Oliver Orbear, the protagonist is trying to get over the loss over a tragedy in his past and the guilt that came with the event, when someone who reminds him of the person he lost comes into his life. He ends up painting this character as a reincarnation rather than a different person, and he learns he has to accept that fact and what he did. He has to accept that you can’t change the past, but you can make up for your mistakes. In the 2nd story, ‘Ice Cream’, (I’m the protagonist! Or, one of the characters I’ll voice act in the franchise! Close enough!) the protagonist seeks revenge on the man who led to both her own and her friends’ deaths. She immediately takes it out on the first person who waddles into the facility, and she believes that she must give him the fate that he gave them all. When she finds out it’s someone else, she learns that sometimes you can’t just enact revenge - you need to let the past stay in the past and just let justice take its course. Then in the third story, ‘Mouse Trap’, the protagonist is trying to reach out to her father and help him with… something. I won’t say bc this story ties into the story I plan on releasing soon, so no spoilers. But basically, she believed that everything was her fault and she needed to make up for it, but she accepts that it wasn’t so black and white, and she couldn’t have prevented anything. She learns that sometimes, you can’t control everything. Hope that helped! Continue asking questions you have bc I love answering them.

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As many or as little as you see fit, I'd think, not having finished mine yet 😅. 14? Good for you for getting serious so early!

She has several videos on secondary characters and how to bring the story together. One video I would highly suggest of hers is any video of hers labeled B plot or Secondary characters but her biggest video that goes far in depth is the one that is titled about Pride and Prejudice.

@@MCaraPlays thank you

Hey! 🙂 wanna move the conversation over here?

What I’ve been doing since I started writing (at like four lol) is writing passages with a simple prompt (for example, “what if time travel had changed a major historical event”) and write it as if I were the protagonist. Then I take the prompt and try doing different things with it - like I’m someone who has American spelling and grammar, so when I write characters who are British, I use British terms and grammar instead - by simply applying a different “lense”, as Abbie has said in previous videos, and trying to do it in different examples. This help me practice my character voice. I usually prep a tiny bit, just to get a hang of the basic idea, and then I write the passage and usually tweak it to fit into the prompt perfectly. I tend to try to do them in different perspectives, too. (Similar to ‘Flatline’ and ‘Insomnia’ being the same story from two different perspectives, yet are clearly separate. ‘Flatline’ is first person, and ‘Insomnia’ is partially omniscient first person.) After that, I slowly went longer and longer stories to get a feel, and my longest stories so far are around 50 pages in Google docs lol Here is an example of a passage with my lense (the prompt being ‘if Taylor (an oc) was the protagonist of ‘Memory’ instead of Veronica/Serena’): “I glance behind me, biting my lip. Why do I feel like I’m being watched? I carefully approach the cascading curtain, and warily part it as I enter. I sneak another glance behind me, just in case. I turn, and am suddenly greeted with an imposing animatronic. It stands, still as a statue. I carefully navigate around it, and continue through. “Hello?” I call, searching for the source of the movement, when my flashlight beam lands on a tiny, wooden doll.” With Taylor’s perspective in a 3rd person format: “Taylor repeatedly checked behind him, paranoid with the looming presence of eyes slicing through him like his father’s knives. He bit his lip as he slowly walked up to the still, flowing purple curtains. He’d always loved purple. He slipped into it, snappily checking behind him as another wave of paranoia hit. When he turned back, he gasped as an imposing animatronic grinned down at him. He immediately avoided it, being flooded with terrible memories. Despite the robot’s still composure, it still sent chills down his spine. “Hello?” He squeaked as he searched for the culprit of the movement that had drawn him there. He turned. He gasped and fell back as his flashlight’s beam landed on a small, wooden doll.” Sorry if that was long, but I hope that helped! It’s an exercise I’ve used to help me with different parts of writing as I slowly went into larger, longer stories. I also didn’t prep/outline those, so I hope they aren’t too sloppy. I kind of repeated the scene from memory (lol I said the thing). I hope that helped! If it didn’t, I’m happy to help with some further clarification lol. Or if you have other questions, I love to help! :D

@@Sapphire864 wow that was AMAZING! You must be talented!

@@AllHandlesIChooseAreTaken aww, thank you so much! I’ve been passionate about writing for years, so I guess it does help that I’ve been doing it for, like, a decade of my short life so far. I’m also happy to help you work on improving! I love helping people learn and improve, so I usually offer proofreading and tips when I can. If you do have questions or anything, I’m here :)

I know I'm not the Abbie you asked for😔, but I would like to give you advice on the way I approach that issue, if you don't mind (just while you wait for Abbie's answer

@@iamluyu thank you so much for responding! This helped a lot

Lol it says “translate to English”

Right?? It feels like they got in a huge fight right before recording this video 😳

@@uswiz168 lmao thought i was the only one! 😭