Okay, but is it bad to write how you speak? Do any good writers write how they speak? Or is the ask (in which you let your blog readers know that most writers you chat with don't write how they speak) just you very politely dancing around the fact that only the bad writers write how you speak? Asking for a friend who is very secure about the way they write.
I’m not sure what you’re asking. I tend to speak with lot of ums and ers and handwaving gestures and sentences that never exactly finish but just sort of drift off, and I interrupt myself in the middle of a thought and hare off after whatever idea just occurred to me. I’ll embark on a sentence with a vague idea of where it’s going to end up and hope that’s where we get in the end, and all too often wind up somewhere totally different.
Most people speak one way and write in another way. Writers of fiction are ventriloquists, or we should be, speaking to you in a hundred different voices, a voice for every character.
Other people speak in whole sentences, some of them even speak with semicolons, and you can hear the paragraphing. Some of those people do write exactly like they speak. I’ve known a very few of them -- Alan Moore and Clive Barker, the late Peter Nicholls, the late Douglas Adams...
What’s important in a writer is that they write clearly, and they communicate what they want to communicate, as powerfully as they can, in whatever voice they need to write in. It doesn’t matter how they speak, what accent or dialect they speak, or even if they can speak.
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