I am just starting something ( non - script ) and one of the characters has a stutter.
The question is how do you write the dialogue?
Is it
"Can I bborrow a pair of sssissors?"
or
"Can I borrow a pair of sissors" he stuttered.
Bearing in mind, there is going to be a lot of dialogue.
Or is it neither?
Put it in the stage directions BF.
Quote: bigfella @ February 11 2010, 1:05 PM GMTI am just starting something ( non - script ) and one of the characters has a stutter.
The question is how do you write the dialogue?
Is it
"Can I bborrow a pair of sssissors?"
or
"Can I borrow a pair of sissors" he stuttered.
Bearing in mind, there is going to be a lot of dialogue.
Or is it neither?
It's not a script Marc.
Well whose fault is that?
Then what is it? Are you sending abusive notes whilst pretending to be Kevin out of a fish called Wanda?
The second one then, 
Quote: sootyj @ February 11 2010, 1:12 PM GMTThen what is it? Are you sending abusive notes whilst pretending to be Kevin out of a fish called Wanda?
It's a short story thing!
Although with the stutter it might be a long one.
Quote: Marc P @ February 11 2010, 1:12 PM GMTThe second one then,
Yeah? He does talk quite a bit. Won't it get a bit repetative?
Why give him a stutter anyway?
It's quite integral...Its about a boy who is bullied about his stutter.
Quote: Marc P @ February 11 2010, 1:10 PM GMTWell whose fault is that?
You've probably already thought of this, but Google for novels with a stutterer and find out how they did it.
s..s..s..stutter
maybe?
Quote: zooo @ February 11 2010, 1:28 PM GMTYou've probably already thought of this, but Google for novels with a stutterer and find out how they did it.
Ha!
One of the main characters in this has a stutter, if memory serves me right:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cracker-Say-I-Love-You/dp/0863698271
