I have some supernatural beings in my script. How can I write that they speak with modified voice, to sound more menacing? I mean, computer modified voice, like in some videogames? Thanks for answering!:)

A simple wryly should do it.

          JOE BOB
     (Mechanical voice)
Wassup, yo?

Bad example, but that's the general idea of how I'd do it.

If they all always speak that way, you could do it as part of the general character description, i.e., "They speak with digitzed voices" too.

If this is something that only happens once or very few times throughout the script, I'd use a parenthetical... otherwise, I'd mention it in an action like when the supernatural being first speaks and maybe insert a few nods here and there regarding the menacing sounds.

You should treat it almost as a character description. You don't need to keep describing what a character looks like. If you emphasize it well enough, the reader will remember.

If certain characters speak with a certain accent or the like all the time, I'd personally use a "note".

Example - All alien creatures speak in an evil, mechanical way.

Example - All locals speak with a Southern drawl.

Otherwise, you'll be using either wrylies or a line of prose every time a new character speaks or is about to.

Quoted from Dreamscale If certain characters speak with a certain accent or the like all the time, I'd personally use a "note". Example - All alien creatures speak in an evil, mechanical way. Example - All locals speak with a Southern drawl. Otherwise, you'll be using either wrylies or a line of prose every time a new character speaks or is about to.

Jeff is absolutely correct!

Using wrylies all the time would simply lead to a distracting read. It would become irksome and draw one out of the story.

I do want to offer this advice however, regarding the direction at all:

Is it possible for you to show the menacing nature through the actions of the menacing characters? ...thereby leaving it in the hands of subsequent technicians subscribed to the project to produce?

I guess what I'm saying is: By saying less we're really saying more. What we might at first imagine as a mechanical voice and thus we kind of "plant" it in the readers mind might in fact weaken the effect.

IF we can write in such a way that we DON'T NEED *notes to convey something, then perhaps we truly are pushing ourselves on to be better conveyers of emotion.

Sandra

I prefer to hint at it in action over using "notes." They just feel like they take people out of the story to me.

Dialogue should be written in such a way that how it's said is never a question...

ALIEN #1

You - will - die - Earthling.

or

CLETUS
We're fixin' ta go down ta the gen'ral store. Y'all can tag along if ya want...

Quoted from Felipe If this is something that only happens once or very few times throughout the script, I'd use a parenthetical... otherwise, I'd mention it in an action like when the supernatural being first speaks and maybe insert a few nods here and there regarding the menacing sounds. You should treat it almost as a character description. You don't need to keep describing what a character looks like. If you emphasize it well enough, the reader will remember.

That sounds about right.