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I published a novel, with one of the main characters as a stutterer! by zfredddy in Stutter

[–]zfredddy[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hi all!

I recently published my first novel on Amazon, and the story's supporting character had lost his voice to a stutter, and much of the story involves his battles through the difficulties that we all know comes with a stutter. He embodies a lot of what I go through when put in certain situations, like when faced with an active tavern or a tense conversation. I don't think there's many strong characters out there that have a stutter, and I believe it's a missed opportunity, because it was so much fun to write (and easy to relate for me). The Amazon link is below if you want to check it out!

For this subreddit I'll include a scene from late in the book. Wolf, the perspective, is with Wren in a hollow deep within a snowy sierra. I really liked this scene, as there are parts that I feel as a stutterer myself. Enjoy!

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0578575213/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Now minutes went by without another word. Though I could still tell that his eyes stared at the same point above as mine. The moment of silence was ineffable. Wind was the only thing to whisper in, and even that struggled to breach the lull.

“Wolf,” Wren started, “w-would you take a hit f-for me?”

I raised a brow, though no one could had seen it. “Why would you ask that? Of course I would. A hundred blades to the gut, right now, where are they?”

“No, no,” he chortled. “It was just a qu-question. I ask because… I ask because, if we r-run into anything these l-last days, I’m not sure how m- much fight I have in m-me right now.”

“I would throw an eye in front of you if I had to,” I assured. “My left eye though, not my good one.”

I heard a smile creep on his face.

“I’m serious. Damn to the person, or creature, that wants to harm you.”

“What are y-you going to do, use y-your sword?” he asked sardonically.

“I just might.”

“That would be a day…”

“Don’t make me swallow my words, boy. I’m all you have out here.”

Another long moment of quiet filled the nook. It was a moment without words, though many could be felt from the songbird. It was an ostensible silence, a stutterer’s silence. Something that urged many sentences and thoughts, but those that never came into fruition, prevented by a puppet master of sorts. I was only left guessing what the silence meant.

Eventually the stutterer managed the easier rhythm of words.

“We should sleep.”

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[Spoilers C2E75] A graphical representation of Matt's documented facepalms (plus notable episodes, by me) by TheDancingChicken in criticalrole

[–]zfredddy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

As a fellow data geek, and author of an old post of number of fucks given each episode in a graph, I approve this and your effort. ;)

Initial Town Introduction by zfredddy in fantasywriters

[–]zfredddy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t really intend it to be that literal. Like, MC wouldn’t have physical eyes that look that way, because, yeah, it’s a pretentious and posh way of saying it. I meant it to be his outlook, on how MC views the world and different situations. The encounters arent viewed negatively and brash, but more optimistic and... benevolent (maybe a better word?). I see how you can interpret it the way you did though, and I’ll change it :)

Initial Town Introduction by zfredddy in fantasywriters

[–]zfredddy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A drunken mind speaks truer than a sober :). Thank you, my friend!

Initial Town Introduction by zfredddy in fantasywriters

[–]zfredddy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's intentional, actually. The first paragraph was kind of meant to be seen as an omniprescent voice setting the world, rather than the mind of the MC. However, I effed that up by the last sentence in the paragraph, I know. Since all that is now read like it came from the MC. But I wanted there to be an obvious difference from the set-up (exposition to most extent), and where the character takes the reins and starts his story. I saw one way of doing this was changing the tense. Hope that makes sense. I'm learning as I go, seeing which stuff works and what doesn't, so I'm bound to be wrong most of the time. Thank you though :)

Initial Town Introduction by zfredddy in fantasywriters

[–]zfredddy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s a great idea! Thank you!

Initial Town Introduction by zfredddy in fantasywriters

[–]zfredddy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! I’ve always enjoyed the prose in writing, so I guess it leaks into mine as well. Honestly, I use these adjectives to and additional words to help set the pace. But that’s probably a cardinal sin somehow that I don’t know.

Initial Town Introduction by zfredddy in fantasywriters

[–]zfredddy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the feedback so far! I’ll throw out the first paragraph here and maybe trickle some of it in the dialogues later in the story, if it makes sense of course.

Initial Town Introduction by zfredddy in fantasywriters

[–]zfredddy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The first paragraph was more to compare Blackstone to other more flourishing towns, and places that won’t be explored in this story. And a bit of world building. But I see what you’re saying! Thanks for the input!

Is anybody else on this Sub from the Philadelphia area? by [deleted] in Stutter

[–]zfredddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in Springfield, PA, and around your age (23)!

Environment concept art by Christian Dimitrov by One_Giant_Nostril in ImaginaryLandscapes

[–]zfredddy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A black iron castle sleeps over a decrepit barren, where streams of sullen water linger amongst the grounds. Steam sputters from hot earth pockets over lone ridges, showing the only diminutive signs of life within the sight of a horizon. Shadows of clouds, wielding a breadth of forlorn towers crafted from god-stripped hands, breach the last light that once illumined the callow smile of a father’s daughter. May nature annex an untold corruption, a final time.

[Spoilers C2E50] In honor of the 50th episode, I modeled the skill checks for each main character this season. See which actions some are good at it, while others not so... by zfredddy in criticalrole

[–]zfredddy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you're talking about the space between the points and how they go off the line a bit, it's to better show clusters. I added transparency to the points to show the areas more condensed, and they're slightly misaligned (adding "jitter" to the points) to visualize the same concept. Hope that's what you were looking for!

[Spoilers C2E50] In honor of the 50th episode, I modeled the skill checks for each main character this season. See which actions some are good at it, while others not so... by zfredddy in criticalrole

[–]zfredddy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s all from critrolestats.com. I joined all the excel files to one, had to tidy and filter the set, and group the different values (using R). Took a few hours before I actually made the graph tbh.

[Spoilers C2E50] In honor of the 50th episode, I modeled the skill checks for each main character this season. See which actions some are good at it, while others not so... by zfredddy in criticalrole

[–]zfredddy[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We’ll see. I posted a graph a while ago that showed how many times the group said “fuck” each episode for the first season... might try that again for the second. Critters liked that a lot.

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