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    How to Create Distinctive Character Voices
    How to Create Distinctive Character Voices
    How to Create Distinctive Character Voices
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    How to Create Distinctive Character Voices

    By Kylie Day

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    Every person has their own unique voice. Why should the characters that inhabit our stories be any different? Crafting unique voices for every one of your characters is imperative if you want them to feel real to your reader.

    In this book, there are instructions and questions to help you create distinct character voices that will set your characters apart from each other and make them lift from the pages to come alive in your reader’s imagination.

    Includes a free download: How to Craft Your Protagonist’s Internal Growth Worksheets

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKylie Day
    Release dateApr 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370836895
    How to Create Distinctive Character Voices
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    Kylie Day

    Kylie Day is a lover of books and stories, an avid reader, and a passionate writer. Last time she counted the books in her bookshelves, she had over five hundred of them (the digital library was too extensive to count). While physical books feel magical in her hands — and smell even more magical — she prefers to buy ebooks because she doesn’t have any room for more bookshelves. If she had the money she would buy a library, just to fill it with amazing books.Her love for books is why she, as of the spring of 2015, has a BA in literature. She could never see her life progressing in any other way since that first time she picked up a book and read it with fervor as well as stuck her nose in it just to smell the magic on the pages.Now Kylie is chasing her childhood dream of becoming an author. The Busy Author’s Guide-series is a series of short ebooks that is meant to help others with the same dream.

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      How to Create Distinctive Character Voices - Kylie Day

      © 2017 Kylie Day

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      All rights reserved, except where otherwise noted. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including informational storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in a review.

      Some of the links in this e-book may be affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I may receive an affiliate commission. Please understand I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will add value to my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials.

      Find Kylie online at thewritingkylie.com

      I really appreciate your comments, corrections, and suggestions. You can send me a note at thewritingkylie.com/contact. Thank you!

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