and even when it came to dialogue, she used words that made it sound like the character, rather than just overloading the speech with that character's verbal tic.
Oh man, yes. That's SUPER important, and often one of the weaknesses of characters that people find boring to play with IMO. Word choice says a lot about a character.
And it is genuinely hard, so in some ways, I'm not surprised that a lot of people get it wrong, but it seems like lots of people don't even realize it. If more did, I'm sure we could squeeze out more competency from some people.
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(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 07:41 am (UTC)(link)Oh man, yes. That's SUPER important, and often one of the weaknesses of characters that people find boring to play with IMO. Word choice says a lot about a character.
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