I lived in the US for donkeys' years so it has been a journey back in time for me. If you have had personal experience of something, it is always more authentic.
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They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time.Colleen McCullough
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.
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She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
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It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
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