8 Ways to Make Accents the Background, Not the Story

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I get it. You have a character who is French but speaking in English. You have a character with a Scottish accent. You have a character from Russia. And you want to give the flavor of their accents to your reader, right?

Well… maybe.

Here’s the thing. Making your reader focus on a character’s accent can cause you to commit the worst writing sin of…