Episode 21: You Can't Act Genre...Can you? (Re: the Convo on Character Choices)

Send us Fan Mail Today, I’m revisiting character work and giving my friend Steve his due ;) After my last episode on nuance and character choices, Steve, who is both a character actor and a dialect coach, pointed out that genre changes the conversation. And he’s right. I still think subtlety is king. But subtle doesn’t look the same in every book. A cozy mystery, LitRPG, middle grade adventure, thriller, procedural, romantasy, and mafia romance can all ask for different things from a narrator...