One of my characters is a nine-year-old, but she sounds older. It's hard for me to make her sound younger when she's the hero; any suggestions?
*Seraph*
"How grateful we are that the heavens are indeed open, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored, and that the Church is founded on the rock of revelation. We are a blessed people, with apostles and prophets upon the earth today."~ Thomas S. Monson
Get obsessive over sentence structure and vocabulary. Make the sentences mostly simple, (subject, verb, object, maybe indirect object) and limit your vocabulary to what you find in a grade-five grammar book. Don't make everything really, childishly simple, but don't make the sentences too complex. Unless you give your MC a background that makes such language possible.
A writer is a world trapped in a person— Victor Hugo
Ink is blood. Paper is bandages. The wounded press books to their heart to know they're not alone.
"How grateful we are that the heavens are indeed open, that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored, and that the Church is founded on the rock of revelation. We are a blessed people, with apostles and prophets upon the earth today."~ Thomas S. Monson
That's quite helpful.
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