Meme?
Writing Corbin's latest entry got me thinking about the concept of voice, and how I use it to keep my characters from all sounding the same. Obviously, we write characters with different personality traits, or backgrounds, so they will instinctively react to things differently. But how consciously do you change how things are said, as opposed to the content? How do you do this, if at all? Are there characters that you worry about sounding the same in certain situations? Similarly, are there certain things that one of your characters won't say? And are there certain characters you find easier to thread/log as opposed to journal? Or vice versa? And why? How would you categorize (reactionary, self-driven plot, loner, etc) your current characters?
I don't really know how to make this more interactive (as opposed to people just writing their own opinions), so if you've got an idea, go for it. Hmm, and if this doesn't really qualify as a meme, feel free to delete it (Alison, Lauren) and I'll repost it in my CDJ instead. If this gets interest, I'll reply with my characters after I take my practice LSAT.