Post by account_disabled on Dec 23, 2023 23:29:49 GMT -4
Think for a moment about all the films in which children have starred. Try to remember how they spoke, what language they used, what terms they used. Those children spoke like adults . Those children used subjunctives better than me. Those children were adults in children's bodies. Not long ago I started watching a movie that began with the narrator introducing the story. The narrator was a little girl. The little girl spoke like a thirty-year-old. I got up and went to my room. We have all been children. We all have at least one child in our acquaintance. It can be our own child, a nephew, a little cousin, the son of friends and acquaintances.
We all hear, when we leave the house, how children speak. Think for a moment about all the times you have heard a child speak in Special Data everyday reality. Try to remember what language he used, what terms he used. And now compare it with the one proposed by the films. It's the same? No, it's completely different. Why? Cinematic mysteries. How to get children to talk in a story? How they speak in reality . Without subjunctives. Without the use of terms unsuitable for a six or seven year old human being. Have you ever heard a child say: "You disappoint me, mother" or, worse: "If I avoid the word carefully.
When you write a story in which there are children among your characters, make them act as if you had them before your eyes. Imagine your character as a child you know. Imagine the very scene you described with that real child acting it out. And then just burst out laughing, because it will seem impossible to you. Have that child write the dialogue. Not really, but imagine a child you know speaking in your story. Don't be afraid that the sentence is ungrammatical, because it has to be. The dialogue must be realistic, as much as possible. Get children to talk like they really talk . Give him the knowledge he deserves, not a law degree. Don't turn a child into an adult prematurely.
We all hear, when we leave the house, how children speak. Think for a moment about all the times you have heard a child speak in Special Data everyday reality. Try to remember what language he used, what terms he used. And now compare it with the one proposed by the films. It's the same? No, it's completely different. Why? Cinematic mysteries. How to get children to talk in a story? How they speak in reality . Without subjunctives. Without the use of terms unsuitable for a six or seven year old human being. Have you ever heard a child say: "You disappoint me, mother" or, worse: "If I avoid the word carefully.
When you write a story in which there are children among your characters, make them act as if you had them before your eyes. Imagine your character as a child you know. Imagine the very scene you described with that real child acting it out. And then just burst out laughing, because it will seem impossible to you. Have that child write the dialogue. Not really, but imagine a child you know speaking in your story. Don't be afraid that the sentence is ungrammatical, because it has to be. The dialogue must be realistic, as much as possible. Get children to talk like they really talk . Give him the knowledge he deserves, not a law degree. Don't turn a child into an adult prematurely.