Sharon ([identity profile] azriona.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] nanowrimo_lj 2008-11-02 08:04 pm (UTC)

I tend to find reading/writing accents very difficult, unless they're used sparingly. (I've got a Scottish character in my novel; I'm not even going to try to write him an accent.) But that's me. I think for a first draft, write it the way it comes out naturally, whatever won't drive you crazy. The point this month isn't to edit, it's to get it on paper.

I know for a fact I've already switched from third-person narration to first-person at least once, and I'm ignoring it for now, because fixing it is too much of a pain until I get way ahead on my word count.

I think for your accents, it's sort of the same thing. As long as you're writing it in a way that you can read later in order to edit, I think you're okay. If it's making you crazy to write the accent or lack of punctuation or whatever - don't. Or maybe switch POV for a while, so your Aspy's character is only telling the story sometimes, and it's someone else telling it the rest of the time. (Not knowing your story, I have NO idea if this works or not.)

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