Chico Writers Group

Founded in January of 2008, Chico Writers Group allows writers of all ages, backgrounds and degrees of skill to come together to share their work, receive invaluable feedback and contribute to a workshop critiquing environment sought to be beneficial for all participants. We aim to hold regular meetings or workshops and ask that attendees actively participate by downloading and reading the upcoming manuscripts (or share their own manuscript) prior to the meeting.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Resources - Dialect

The following is a list of resources for writing dialect. This goes in conjunction with today's craft chat on dialect.

Writing Dialect: It's in the Rhythm by Cameron Michaels
How to Avoid Writing Dialect in Plays
Dialect Survey Maps - A collection of maps showing the regional variations in terms and pronunciations in the US.
Writing Dialect in Fiction by Tony Burton - Contains several examples from classic literature.
Using Dialect in Fiction by Jennifer Jensen - Another discussion of use of dialect.
Writing Accents and Dialects by Charles Carson - Includes some caution that how you write accents and dialects may say more about you than about the characters.
Write stuff: Avoid using dialect, phonetic spelling by Rusty Lang - Advice on using dialect and phonetic spelling in journalistic writing.
The International Dialects of English Archive - "IDEA was created in 1997 as a free, online library of primary source recordings for the performing arts." Includes transcripts of the audio samples. Note: Each audio sample begins with the person reading a passage. You may want to skip past this to the unscripted speech.
Internet Archive - Contains many freely available movies and audio recordings. May require some digging to find the dialect you’re looking for.
radio-locator and Web-Radio - Search for radio stations; results will show you which ones you can listen to over the Internet. Both include search by state.

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