Ok so I hope this isn’t weird or dumb but how would you write like a bad or king stutter when writing? Cause I write it how it’s sounds when I stutter but I feel it looks weird or bad?!
Not a weird (or dumb!) ask! It's definitely one of those things that can be difficult to portray visually and rhythmically in text.
A few things: You might want to lean into it looking "bad" or "weird", depending on how you want your reader to feel. If the stutter is a thing your character is shy / embarrassed about, or that is a feeling you want to evoke in your reader, it *should* look kind of odd to the eye. That ensures that your reader won't gloss over it, and/or draw the eye to the speech itself.
That said, you can also soften the stutter by leaning into how other characters/character with the stutter is feeling or experiencing that moment. "X waited patiently while Y finished their thought: 'I - I - I - I thought we were meeting at 8?"
Lean into rhythm - stutters are often rather rhythmic, so repeating the same sound with the same punctuation will help to emphasize that repetition. "My-... my-... my-... my-..."
White space can help to create pause, while removing it can make the stutter seem more rapid. "K-k-k-k-k-" reads much quicker than "sh... sh... sh... sh..."
Trust your gut! If you're writing something like your own speech patterns, you're the expert in how to portray that in a way that's authentic. You could have a writer friend you trust review it in comparison to your own speech patterns if you're still uncertain.
Happy writing <3
