According to Josip Novakovich, it is important to write as you speak. Flannery O'Connor does a good job using Southern dialect in her short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find," especially with the grandmother and The Misfit. The voices in Flannery's story were natural and not forced. As a writer, you should always jot down what a person says that is interesting or funny because you may eventually incorporate it into one of your stories. Novakovich writes, "Analyze writings you find funny. If you persevere, in some of them you'll find an applicable method" (184). When I overhear someone saying something funny, I will usually write down what they say in my journal.
Novakovich states that fictional voice depends on who and what you write about. Find a voice that is closest to yourself like Flannery did. She wrote about the South because that is what she knew and gave us the voice of the Southern people.
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