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Sometimes I do, but typically only when the voice itself is part of the storytelling, like when I write musicals. It’s very easy to insert my favorite Broadway voices mentally.

For more literary characters, I find it much harder for some reason.

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No, and though I've referred to Wesley as gravelly/rough and Owen as raspy/soft, I realize now I've never really described kenzie's or rowan's voices at all. 🤔 #pretendpanel

Some voices are clearer in my head than others, esp. main characters vs. supporting cast. I also don't have many specific [voice] actors picked out. Actually, it's difficult to choose "voice claims" because some characters' voices are too specific and others are not specific enough. #PretendPanel

Not sure about *specific* voices—other than Korrin’s dad, who is Keith David—but moving along the vocal range:

Rehni is a bass, Korrin and Eyouin are baritones, Jarhem is a tenor, and Dhivra and Auvi are altos.

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#PretendPanel For most of them, yes. Only two have voice matches -- Acanthus sounds like Davey Havok from AFI and Cypress has Hozier's voice.

Lykaia's got a nasally, thin voice. Azalea has a voice like warm butter, smooth and melting and full.

Rebecca's sharp, impatient, high, and shrill.

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Ashrah has a deadpan voice, but also her "warrior voice" when she roars and screams and is in that battle mode. Plus, she has an Indonesian-esque accent with 🧵

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After a couple of scenes, I end up with a good sense of the accent for each character, and that supports their vocab choices and when they interrupt others, or how much they curse. I have had a character's voice shift over a project, which means going back and retconning their accent!

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Every character has a distinct voice, but I can't say I equate that voice with anyone in particular.

Gielle has a tendency toward loud with muttered curses.

Glass has a very neutral voice from speaking as so many other people.

Caly is soft-spoken, almost hard to hear.

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#pretendpanel Sep 5th: specific voices in mind for your characters?

No. Not immediately. Apart from dialects, accents. That sort of thing.

But I'm a first person writer, so I get to be my narrator, and come to know them through all the senses.

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One of my favourite characters sounds like the actress Judy Holliday (from the movie Born Yesterday). Another one sounds like a cross between Robert Stack and Robert DeNiro.

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#pretendpanel I do! 😊

Angie is a mezzo-soprano. In my head, she's voiced by America Ferrera. Rich, warm, slightly raspy. Feminine, sharp, quick with a comeback.

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I’m more aware of the voices of secondary characters, like I would be of people around me.

Some are more noticeable than others.

I even went so far as to try to write some dialect for one recently!

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I hear through the ears of my MCs, so I don’t think my POV characters have any noticeable traits when I write them. It’s similar to how a person often believes it’s only other people who have accents. 🧵1/2

Yes and no. I have ideas for how they sound. The tone, the timbre, the way their voices change during certain emotions, but not a specific voice.
That said, Liv from book 3 has a voice style that I 100% can hear in my head (she sounds like this lady)

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#PretendPanel I love this question! I can absolutely "hear" what my characters sound like. Most have voice matches. If I'm reading my words back to myself, I "hear" it, but I don't have that inner narrator when I'm writing, necessarily. Only when I'm reading it back.

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-I always picture my writings to be in movie or show format in my mind. I really don't picture my writings any other way: It's with the 5 senses, even in my voice with sound. It's pretty awesome.
Writers: Ever feel this way about your writing picturing like a movie?