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Tag Archives: Dialect
Writing to the Punchline (Bonuses: Horror and Dialect!)
The thing had eyes now, one in its forehead and one in its cheek, each formed by a dull silver Pennsylvania shilling and each spluttering and emitting a foul yellow smoke as the silver burned its way into the clay … Continue reading
Posted in How to Write, Writing Sample
Tagged Clay Monsters, Dialect, Horror, Witchy Eye, Writing Visually
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Dialect and Accent
This is simple. You don’t exactly reproduce on paper what any of your characters sounds like, because you would write incomprehensible gibberish all the time. So when you go to represent the speech of a character with a regionally or … Continue reading
More Cool Dialect
And if I haver… Huh? Young Craig and Charlie Reid. And young Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson. And young… that other dude. What’s with the bass player, though? At about, say, 2:00…
Posted in Music, Song
Tagged Benny and Joon, Dialect, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles), The Proclaimers
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Making Dialect Cool
“Why Aye Man” is a terrific song by Mark Knopfler. Listen to it first for the smoking guitar. Then listen to it again for the Geordie lyrics. P.S. Sorry about the picture of the Strat. This is obviously a Les … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Song
Tagged Dialect, Geordie, Mark Knopfler, Smoking Guitar, Why Aye Man
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