=======A Tutorial We’ve all run into the situation where we want a character to speak while gagged, but what do you write? You can put your hand over your own mouth, speak the lines and try to mimic it in print, but when faced with the task it’s not that simple. Good gag speak can help paint a more vivid picture of a captive's distress more vividly and make us feel that gag empathetically and viscerally, if there were just some rules to follow (and break). I am no expert, but over decades of DiD writing I have been evolving a set of guidelines in my head of how to convert normal speech into sets of letters that portray a character with gag hampered speech. These guidelines were first based on observation of other people’s writing, then an analysis based on what I have been able to learn and observe about sound and speech articulation. Only recently have I boiled these down to a set of written guidelines. Styles of my own writing are biased of course, but take, ignore, or break the
=======Chapter 10 Part 1 The light of the campfire danced on the faces of the three girls and Clara Greyburn who was sitting on the ground reclined against a log. Katy Amanda and Mei Lan sat on another log opposite. Clara had been fairly quiet all day, but with dinner along with whatever spirits she had in her cup and the unlabeled bottle that refilled it, had loosened her tongue in unkind ways. “You three,” she sneered over her tin cup, held in reverence close to her lips, “somewhere there are mothers disquieted with concern for you. You shoulda paid them mind and stayed close to the fold, like little girls should. Now I should be burdened with your green little hides and deep in the territories to add powder to the fire. ” Amanda waited for Katy to respond with fire as she certainly would to such pointed words, but to her surprise, Katy’s eyes were cast to the ground. Amanda, as an English person was generally motivated to speak before a group by one thing, an uncomfortable
