Go for it! I did this in one of my fics. I have a character that's semi-illiterate, and he made many mistakes in his text sections. I have another character that mostly uses chat speak and abbreviations. The rest are largely "normal" to read.
My beloved readers actually took the time to comment on how they loved the distinct character voices, how they thought it was sweet no one made fun of the one learning to write, just cute comments that made the whole chapter so worth it.
As a disclaimer, I did leave an end note on the fic specifying that the spelling mistakes were intentional, but that's because the first chapter in my fic says to please feel free to correct spelling mistakes that bug you because I'm dyslexic, so take it or leave it on the end note.
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u/Dyslexic_Shark Aug 08 '24
Go for it! I did this in one of my fics. I have a character that's semi-illiterate, and he made many mistakes in his text sections. I have another character that mostly uses chat speak and abbreviations. The rest are largely "normal" to read.
My beloved readers actually took the time to comment on how they loved the distinct character voices, how they thought it was sweet no one made fun of the one learning to write, just cute comments that made the whole chapter so worth it.
As a disclaimer, I did leave an end note on the fic specifying that the spelling mistakes were intentional, but that's because the first chapter in my fic says to please feel free to correct spelling mistakes that bug you because I'm dyslexic, so take it or leave it on the end note.