What noise does a wookie make?
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That's a good start. But it has a gargle to it and almost a flat t sound in it that I couldn't figure out how to incorporate.
Got it!
The muffled sexytime-squelchings of a furby and a mogwai, if the room had an echo based on the emptiness of my soul?
YES! Now put it into letters. I won't copy right it so you can use it in your next romance novel.
A wook is, oh let me see . . . maybe it's a honk through the clacking beak of a goose gargling the rocks from its craw.
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You are kidding, right?
Just say, "...made a sound like the Wookie in STAR WARS."
I would but I need him to be able to verbalize the sound. I could do the arghhtgggtaarrgrhh but it just doesn't look right.
Depends on what he's doing, if he's fighting it would be an entirely different sound from Wookie nookie.
Why? Is there a reason you need to spell it out?
Chances are, even if you get it perfect, nobody's going to read it like a Wookie cry unless you spell out that information, in which case you don't need to write the sound down.
Personally, if I came across "arghhtgggtaarrgrhh," I would stop at "arghh" and assume he was expressing distress about something. If I read, "'Arghhtgggtaarrgrhh,' he yelled, sounding like Chewbacca from Star Wars," I would think, "Oh, that's what those letters sound like," after the fact. If I read, "He gave a cry like an annoyed Wookie," I know exactly what that sounds like and you didn't have to pull me out of the story to do it.
My GF has accused me of making lots of noise when I make wookie...
I am not sure if she is complaining or complimenting me...
I am not sure if she is complaining or complimenting me...
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Dudes! It's not Wookie, it's Wookiee.
In one of my WIPs I wrote that a young kid character gurgled like a baby Wookiee
In one of my WIPs I wrote that a young kid character gurgled like a baby Wookiee
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Yeah, I don't think it's wise to try to spell out complicated inarticulate sounds. The last thing you want to do is to have your reader stop and try to reproduce the noise.
Unless it's really important, I'd try to write around that speed bump.
Unless it's really important, I'd try to write around that speed bump.
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Once at an old job our fax was making a whining noise. I described it to the tech on the phone as "how Chewie sounds in Empire Strikes Back when Han is being tortured." The guy new exactly what was wrong with the fax machine.
so Wookiees sound like a broken fax.
But yeah, just go with "Argh" and "he sounded like an annoyed wookiee."
so Wookiees sound like a broken fax.
But yeah, just go with "Argh" and "he sounded like an annoyed wookiee."
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