Hey everyone!
So, Ishimondo week is nearly upon us, and I've been working hard on planning my fics + finishing the first one (which took WAY longer than I expected, and also might have ended up being 9k? Oops). However, I have a question for all of you lovely people.
Accents in writing. I know that they get pretty widely mixed reviews - from what I can tell most people either love them or hate them. Now, I myself usually don't mind them. A lot of times, it helps me to better picture the characters and their way of speaking. However, I was talking to a few of my friends about it, and they all HATE it when a fic author writes in the accents. See, this is a little problem for me because while writing Mondo's dialog, I usually write out his accent. Despite this, I don't want to keep that in my fics if the majority of people hate it. Therefore, I thought I'd put up a poll to see people's opinions on this matter.
By the way, don't worry about whether or not it will take a lot of time and effort to change the dialogue, because it really won't be that difficult! It'll probably only take me around 5-10 minutes to do so if that's the poll's decision.
(P.S., here's an excerpt from my fic which shows an example of writing out an accent - or at least, how I do it: "I’d been meanin’ ta drop that shit for a while when he offered to help me with it last year, an’ the rest is history.")
So, without further ado,
Thank you all so much, have a lovely day, and see you guys for Ishimondo week!
-Lee :)