Trying To Write Characters Who Speak Another Is Really Challenging-- Especially When You, As The Writer,

Trying to write characters who speak another is really challenging-- especially when you, as the writer, do not know this language. 

However, I’d like to give some tips to those who are trying to do this!

If the character you’re writing do not understands the language other character is talking, it’s important to state it! How can you do it? Here is an example:

“And you know something? I wish I could--” but before María could finish her sentence, she had ran into a lamppost and hit herself with it. She let out a loud scream and yelled something in spanish that Jane Doe didn’t understand, but was completely sure she was cursing God or the poor lamppost.  

María rambled strange words and scowled. “Well, shit.”

EDUCATE YOURSELF ON THE LANGUAGE. Other than just basic words, it’s important to see where they are from! Just as there’s a lot of English Lingo, there are spanish, french and such. Slang  and accents can vary according to the region they are from. For example:

Venezuela has different slangs/idioms to Mexico.

Venezuelan slang: ¡Coño ‘e la madre!, ¡Mar’dito!, Marico, pana, etc.

Mexican slang: ¡Chinga su madre!, Wey, etc.

Youtube is a great tool to know things like accent, some culture and more. There are channels dedicated to this kind of content and this are a great resource, especially when it comes to listen how they talk a certain language.

For example, there’s this video in Youtube that’s about a conversation between two Norwegian women talking in Norwegian. 

This video has English subtitles and in the description you can find the whole conversation in English and Norwegian. 

It’s rather simple, but it can help you to understand the dynamic of this language and other videos like this one can be found on the Internet.

Video mentioned. 

RESEARCH IS KEY. If you only use Google Translate to say things in another language, dear, you still have so much to learn! Not that using google translate it’s wrong, but there are other better resources since this one is just for quick, and sometimes, literal translations.

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psst, this is your secret cupid. 👀 i was wondering, do you want your requests to be separate posts, or would you rather me just put them all in one post?

Hi!

I leave that up to you, whatever works best for you and your work. However, if you make them separately, be sure to tag me in all of them! And also, you could reblog together all the works, keeping them separately but archived together; know what I mean?

Other than that, thank you SO MUCH for reaching out to me 🥺❤️

Have a nice day, pal' (人*´∀｀)｡*ﾟ+

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT YOU DO ❤️

A quick sketch I did  of Bluebird and MacCready slowdancing scene that happens in chapter 7 The Song He Had Never Heard Before (Me & You) 

(Click for better quality)

Below I’ll leave the summary of Love Gun, a F!SSxMacCready story, if you’re interested in reading.

Reblogs, kudos and feedback are always welcomed and please, do not repost!

Summary: MacCready gets hired by one, if not the most mysterious woman of the Commonwealth.

No name, no talking. MacCready didn’t even know her name or voice but there were two things he could be certain about that peculiar job: he would be handsomely paid and that his boss carried a heavy past on her shoulders and hid it away in the depths of her heart.

MacCready had a policy of not making questions, but it wouldn’t be long until he would drown in a sea of questions.

Rating: M

And a friendly reminder, if you want to ask about Bluebird or MacCready in Love Gun, you can hit me with questions! My AMA will remain open for anything you want to ask.

(and friendly tagging: @theartofblossoming​ @savybaby666​ @missingskully​)

Hi, so I know that you are writing 'Love Gun' in a language that is not your first. Do you publish in both or just English? What drew you to focus on MacCready as a companion and how did you come up with the concept for Bluebird, your 'f!sole'?

Howdy!

I'm writing and publishing it only in English. This is because I want to familiarize with this language in a way that is not only translation— you see, a language has its quirks and things that, when it's seen from other languages' perspective it couldn't make sense. Slang and metaphors are unique according to the language and this remarks the reason why I'm writing in English.

For your second question, at first I was interested in Deacon and in fact, Love Gun was originally planned to have him as the protagonist! It fitted many of the ideas I had and some of those remain in the actual version, but I struggled to make it work. After days and days of uncertainty, I found an old picture I had on my phone about an old playthrough where MacCready was my companion. My mind exploded. Then, after I played FO4 once more and watched a lot of YT videos about companions reactions, I realized he was the one and only. Someone resilent, professional and yet kind, funny and with a lame taste in fashion was a perfect target.

And lastly, Bluebird. Oh my, she was so fun to imagine. As I said previously, this story was first planned as a Deacon x fem!ss and she was completely different to how she now is. I was inspired by this fic (which name I can't remember and God, I'm still looking for the name) where fem!SS was a foreigner, Swedish I think, and had moved to America with her husband to America. She struggled to talk with Deacon and others and the times she forgot how to say a word and her thick accent had driven me insane— in a good way ofc. I had fallen in love with that concept and wanted to play with it. MacCready was more similar to Sole Survivor than I had thought and that was essential to develop his arc in Love Gun.

Bluebird was originally planned to be a scientist! But after some research in AO3, I discarded it because it was overused! I wanted to come up with something different on its own way and after some research, the Bluebird we know came to be. However, the last thing I came up was her pseudonym. I wanted something memorable and tbh, I wanted it to be related with the word "bird" in honor to an ol' WIP of mine called "Songbird". After giving it a lot of thought with WORD opened in my laptop, the name Bluebird came up between some of the suggestions I had and fell in love with it as soon as it was written.

Thank you so much for asking, blossom! Have a nice day, take care (人*´∀｀)｡*ﾟ+

Another quick study! - - #drawing_study #practice #sketchingart #sketching #photoshopart #study https://www.instagram.com/p/CL0tUmBJm5j/?igshid=i5ouhw056pyt

WIP… DAY? (o゜▽゜)o☆

I was tagged by @theartofblossoming! Supposedly for #WIPWednesday but anyways, I’m always happy every time you tag me on something, dear ♪(´▽｀)

So here’s a peek on the chapter that has been killing my few braincells for the past few weeks of Love Gun:

She made him turn elegantly, both bodies in tune with the slow music. It pleasantly surprised MacCready—he was supposed to be the one leading and yet, somehow, she had managed to take control over their dance. There was a sort of harshness in him that Bluebird found entertaining, feeling his rough and indelicate hands. Amused, Bluebird rested her head between his neck and shoulder and MacCready felt how she smiled on his skin.

MacCready suffered the agony from the thought of how unreal everything was. The feeling of her nose and face in his skin and how relaxed she was in his arms. For some strange reason beyond his comprehension, he was happy. He remembered the night of the storm, all wet because of the rain and holding each other’s hands as Bluebird quietly sobbed in the dark. The question of why was she crying traced his mind with curiosity.

The hand MacCready had on her waist travelled across the curves of her slim body to her hip and brought her body closer to him. Bluebird gasped in surprise and responded with a tighter grip on MacCready’s shoulder, but didn’t pull away his hand.

“What am I doing?” MacCready thought as he buried his face on her hair “, what are we doing?”

I don’t know who to tag since I’m still quite new to the community in tumblr, however, I love to tag @theyoftenwhisper in this kind of things, only if you fancy it; no pressure! Thank you so much for your support and feedback. 

Anyone who wants to do this tag, feel free to do it and tag me if you want to!