Writing Onomatopeia usage

How often should you use them, if at all?

  • Never. Use descriptions

    Votes: 6 17.1%

  • When it’s some sort of very common, easy to understand sound. Adds immersion?

    Votes: 26 74.3%

  • Use them whenever possible.

    Votes: 3 8.6%
  • Total voters
    35
RepresentingEnvy

RepresentingEnvy

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BearlyAlive said:
Either for comedic effects or in case you need some repetition to sound especially psycho. It's been pretty effective in (older) ADV Visual Novels, especially Denpa, so it can work well in written form. Also works with shorter sentences.

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Very much emphasis. That woman is dead fr fr.
 
FebyA

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I use it only in dialogues.

If someone gets punched, then they, the actor, should scream and play the part. Not the narrator.
If someone laughed, confused, frustrated, felt anger, cried, I let them speak up their feelings in dialogue.

An exception if I want the pacing to be slow. Then I will write a lot of description.
 
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