Improve characterization by studying communication.

[Jemini]

I just happened across this video on communication in a professional setting, and it made me realize something about how we characterize our characters.

It talks a lot about what the use of certain words says about you and what impressions it makes for the listener. Well, these sorts of communication tips also come up in writing in a very different way. It actually serves you as a writer to know all the communication habits a person can have and what that says about them, then use these things on purpose for their characters.

One example would be the use of "side particles" mentioned in the video. Side particles are words like "well," "umm," "so," or "like," used as filler words or things of the sort. The video recommends removing these words from your vocabulary because they make you sound insecure. In the case of writing though, we can actually use side particles like this intentionally by having a character we want to come off as unsure use them.

This is a tip a lot of people already know about and I see it frequently used to good effect. Studying up on it can help improve your characterization further, though.

On the flip side, you can also study the communication tips and follow them exactly with characters you want to come off as highly professional or effective communicators. To take your writing even farther to the next level though, you could put some thought into how normal everyday people in your world communicate. The people who are not wishy-washy uncertain people, but are also not highly effective professionals. These common people would have a few bad communication habits, but would not be the total mess of using words like "umm" and "so" all over the place followed by a bunch of ellipsis (...).

This is yet another one of those areas where a writer has a harder job than a common person. A common person can just learn to communicate like a professional. However, a writer has to learn how to communicate in every single way and in every single setting that is common for people to communicate, all in an effort to utilize those communication habits in their characterization.

Of course, this is all just a tip on how to further sharpen your writing and give it just that little bit of extra edge rather than being something absolutely necessary. However, it is definitely something I'd recommend if you are looking to improve.

(Here's the link to that video I kept talking about.)

 

[RepresentingWrath]

 

[ABCGUY]

I dont need that

Because

I dont communicate at all ?
I would die from anxiety first ?‍?

I dont need that

Because

I dont communicate at all ?
I would die from anxiety first ?‍?

Verbally

 

[Zirrboy]

(Here's the link to that video I kept talking about.)

How to become based sigma male in 3 easy steps

 

[Itroggu]

Actually, I really need some of these as a writer. It's really hard to come up communications in a story, especially when it comes to just talking to yourself with various questions acting as that character. You really need to put in to perspective from the character's eyes in order to pull off a genuine conversation. The sad idea is that I still feel like my own characters don't talk the way I think they were based on my own way of communication. Hell, although I base my communications out of my discord friends, I still feel like this is not the closest way a normal conversation would sound like

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

I just happened across this video on communication in a professional setting, and it made me realize something about how we characterize our characters.

It talks a lot about what the use of certain words says about you and what impressions it makes for the listener. Well, these sorts of communication tips also come up in writing in a very different way. It actually serves you as a writer to know all the communication habits a person can have and what that says about them, then use these things on purpose for their characters.

One example would be the use of "side particles" mentioned in the video. Side particles are words like "well," "umm," "so," or "like," used as filler words or things of the sort. The video recommends removing these words from your vocabulary because they make you sound insecure. In the case of writing though, we can actually use side particles like this intentionally by having a character we want to come off as unsure use them.

This is a tip a lot of people already know about and I see it frequently used to good effect. Studying up on it can help improve your characterization further, though.

On the flip side, you can also study the communication tips and follow them exactly with characters you want to come off as highly professional or effective communicators. To take your writing even farther to the next level though, you could put some thought into how normal everyday people in your world communicate. The people who are not wishy-washy uncertain people, but are also not highly effective professionals. These common people would have a few bad communication habits, but would not be the total mess of using words like "umm" and "so" all over the place followed by a bunch of ellipsis (...).

This is yet another one of those areas where a writer has a harder job than a common person. A common person can just learn to communicate like a professional. However, a writer has to learn how to communicate in every single way and in every single setting that is common for people to communicate, all in an effort to utilize those communication habits in their characterization.

Of course, this is all just a tip on how to further sharpen your writing and give it just that little bit of extra edge rather than being something absolutely necessary. However, it is definitely something I'd recommend if you are looking to improve.

(Here's the link to that video I kept talking about.)

I know how to scam people, so I think I drifnitelu Ugh know how to do this yeah. So yeah there’s that. So yeah, wanna have a drink with me? Not like I’m going to pay for it or anything.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

I just happened across this video on communication in a professional setting, and it made me realize something about how we characterize our characters.

It talks a lot about what the use of certain words says about you and what impressions it makes for the listener. Well, these sorts of communication tips also come up in writing in a very different way. It actually serves you as a writer to know all the communication habits a person can have and what that says about them, then use these things on purpose for their characters.

One example would be the use of "side particles" mentioned in the video. Side particles are words like "well," "umm," "so," or "like," used as filler words or things of the sort. The video recommends removing these words from your vocabulary because they make you sound insecure. In the case of writing though, we can actually use side particles like this intentionally by having a character we want to come off as unsure use them.

This is a tip a lot of people already know about and I see it frequently used to good effect. Studying up on it can help improve your characterization further, though.

On the flip side, you can also study the communication tips and follow them exactly with characters you want to come off as highly professional or effective communicators. To take your writing even farther to the next level though, you could put some thought into how normal everyday people in your world communicate. The people who are not wishy-washy uncertain people, but are also not highly effective professionals. These common people would have a few bad communication habits, but would not be the total mess of using words like "umm" and "so" all over the place followed by a bunch of ellipsis (...).

This is yet another one of those areas where a writer has a harder job than a common person. A common person can just learn to communicate like a professional. However, a writer has to learn how to communicate in every single way and in every single setting that is common for people to communicate, all in an effort to utilize those communication habits in their characterization.

Of course, this is all just a tip on how to further sharpen your writing and give it just that little bit of extra edge rather than being something absolutely necessary. However, it is definitely something I'd recommend if you are looking to improve.

(Here's the link to that video I kept talking about.)

I always see these kinda threads and think, "Nah, I'm already perfect" knowing, deep down, I am the Terry Goodkind of the generation.

But not the Tolkien. To quote a popular Tolkien meme, that guy "wrote an entire universe of bloody theological history and dozens of devastating wars, then wrote a children's book in it."

 

[ThrillingHuman]

I don't feel the need to improve my writing. Not that I'm content with my style. Any better, and people will begin to wage religious crusades over them in some centuries.

 

[2021]

Insane mana guide: Just have voices in your head

 

[Ai-chan]

Ai-chan doesn't care about speaking like a leader. Ai-chan will lewd everyone. Yes, Ai-chan will lewd you too. There is no lewd police that can contain Ai-chan's unending lewdness.

 

[Deeprotsorcerer]

Ai-chan doesn't care about speaking like a leader. Ai-chan will lewd everyone. Yes, Ai-chan will lewd you too. There is no lewd police that can contain Ai-chan's unending lewdness.

You would lewd the Ur-Quan?

Kinky

 

[NobleTalon]

(Here's the link to that video I kept talking about.)

ty

 

[2021]

Ai-chan doesn't care about speaking like a leader. Ai-chan will lewd everyone. Yes, Ai-chan will lewd you too. There is no lewd police that can contain Ai-chan's unending lewdness.

Ew

 

[Ai-chan]

You would lewd the Ur-Quan?

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Kinky

If you have to ask... Ai-chan shall have to say 'yes'. Why wouldn't Ai-chan do that? Why must aliens be discriminated? What sins did they commit to be excluded from lewdness? We should be lewding all of them even more, that way the evil ones will run away for fear of being lewded. And only the friendly ones who want to be lewded will come to us and share their technology with us. Lewdness is for goodness.

 

[BenJepheneT]

You would lewd the Ur-Quan?

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Kinky

it literally is a collection of tentacles how can it NOT be lewd

 

[SakeVision]

So, if you use these words, it makes me sound insecure? Smells like bullshit. Well, it's fine for her, as long as it gives her $$ from...umm...'naive' people, but let's be better than average youtube user and not fall for the scam.

I always see these kinda threads and think, "Nah, I'm already perfect" knowing, deep down, I am the Terry Goodkind of the generation.

But not the Tolkien. To quote a popular Tolkien meme, that guy "wrote an entire universe of bloody theological history and dozens of devastating wars, then wrote a children's book in it."

No. Tolkien didn't have the whole universe planned when he wrote the hobbit. Hence many worldbuilding inconsistencies between the hobbit and later works. He didn't even have it refined when writing lotr, though it's far more truthful to Silmarillion, which was his worldbuilding magnum opus. And it was also not what made him famous.

Btw, who is Tom Bombadil again?

 

[ConcubusBunny]

I just happened across this video on communication in a professional setting, and it made me realize something about how we characterize our characters.

It talks a lot about what the use of certain words says about you and what impressions it makes for the listener. Well, these sorts of communication tips also come up in writing in a very different way. It actually serves you as a writer to know all the communication habits a person can have and what that says about them, then use these things on purpose for their characters.

One example would be the use of "side particles" mentioned in the video. Side particles are words like "well," "umm," "so," or "like," used as filler words or things of the sort. The video recommends removing these words from your vocabulary because they make you sound insecure. In the case of writing though, we can actually use side particles like this intentionally by having a character we want to come off as unsure use them.

This is a tip a lot of people already know about and I see it frequently used to good effect. Studying up on it can help improve your characterization further, though.

On the flip side, you can also study the communication tips and follow them exactly with characters you want to come off as highly professional or effective communicators. To take your writing even farther to the next level though, you could put some thought into how normal everyday people in your world communicate. The people who are not wishy-washy uncertain people, but are also not highly effective professionals. These common people would have a few bad communication habits, but would not be the total mess of using words like "umm" and "so" all over the place followed by a bunch of ellipsis (...).

This is yet another one of those areas where a writer has a harder job than a common person. A common person can just learn to communicate like a professional. However, a writer has to learn how to communicate in every single way and in every single setting that is common for people to communicate, all in an effort to utilize those communication habits in their characterization.

Of course, this is all just a tip on how to further sharpen your writing and give it just that little bit of extra edge rather than being something absolutely necessary. However, it is definitely something I'd recommend if you are looking to improve.

(Here's the link to that video I kept talking about.)

Very nice tips and could be helpful, except this will take work to implement abd I'm too used to my style, so maybe I'll some part of and try to implement it