BRYAN You’ve created characters that we really want to take into our heart. What’s the secret, then?
ELY Eariwigging! Just eariwigging into people’s conversations, listening to how do people talk. I think for for Duck Fet, that was the easiest part was, was simply just listening to the rhythm, the way that folk sounded. Because even if you’ve got the same accent as somebody else, if you listen really carefully, you say that like like they might say something a little bit different. Like Kirsty says “thingwy” and Charlene says “hingwy” and somebody else in Duck Feet says “hingmwy”. Kirsty would say “a pair a shoes,” Chris Rice would say “a perra shoes” and, you know, they live in the same town, but it’s just these tiny, it’s tiny wee details.
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Ely Percy explains how subtle details in language in their novel Duck Feet made their characters feel more authentic.
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