Fanny Fae

Things I said But Wished I Had Not

LUUURVE MEME // my thread

1. How distinctive is your character’s voice? How did you develop it? Fanny / Faelyn is very distinctive, very feminine, but resonates in the lower register as far as women’s voices go. I wish I could say that I developed her voice, but actually she came as part of the personal spiritual practice that I have of listening to one’s own ancestors, which makes her entirely different from the other characters that I write. I have said repeatedly that I am her scribe and take dictation for her. Fanny’s daughters, as fond of them as I might be, are regretfully merely characters; Fanny herself is not. I cannot force her to go any direction she does not want to go. She has a very distinctive and underlying Scot’s brogue that if she concentrates, she can minimize to where you don’t really notice it. And she has this incredible habit of being very formal in her speech. She never uses contractions in a sentence – unless she is flustered or upset. To her, saying words ending in “n’t” is lazy and improper. I have been corrected numerous times for shortening things that way. You get the impression that her speech is very measured and deliberate a great deal of the time. It isn’t to the point of sounding unnatural, but the listener very early on comes to the realisation that Fanny is careful in what she says and how she says it.
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