Lately, I've been working on adding more precise tone to each of my different characters.
Ah, the fun of editing!
Anyway, I have one bit of dialogue that I'm trying to work. Another character warns the main character to keep her gun "close at hand" when she goes to confront the local sleazeball.
The thing is, the character who says this dialogue is described as very crash and barely literate. Would the phrase "close at hand" be considered too proper a phrase for him to say? And if so, what would be something more fitting?
Ah, the fun of editing!
Anyway, I have one bit of dialogue that I'm trying to work. Another character warns the main character to keep her gun "close at hand" when she goes to confront the local sleazeball.
The thing is, the character who says this dialogue is described as very crash and barely literate. Would the phrase "close at hand" be considered too proper a phrase for him to say? And if so, what would be something more fitting?