Thunder Road

teflonic!

I regularly rattle on about the use, abuse and evolution of language. It’s time for another session.

Language is alive and always adapting to trends and conversational shortcuts.

One of the things that can make or break your story is getting the voices of the characters right. You’re ploughing through a book, enjoying the plot and then one of the characters uses language that just doesn’t fit (e.g. a five-year-old uses the word ‘loquacious’ or something equally unlikely). The whole story suddenly becomes [...]