<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1726329/open_sms">Click here to tell us what you think! </a>Sarah and Lindsay explore how to craft character breakdowns that genuinely serve audio drama production, focusing on vocal qualities and core characteristics rather than irrelevant physical attributes and other animals.  • Character breakdowns serve many key purposes including concisely guiding actors/casting directors, showing character relationships, and informing technical production choices if deftly employed. • Effective breakdowns include vocal qualities, status, relationships, and intentions rather than physical appearance • Consider what "singing voice part" might match your character (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone) or orchestral instrument a character might be to instantly convey vocal quality • Script clues like sentence length, punctuation, vocabulary choices, and verbal tics help create distinctive character voices • Characters are distinguished by what they want and how they pursue it— objectives - some are direct "blunt instruments," others subtle and calculating • Great characters may have internal conflicts between their public and private selves • A character web showing relationships and conflicts helps visualize how characters interact  • Focus on what drives characters, their objectives, and the barriers they face Links for ADWIT EP 303<a href='https://www.johnyorkestory.com/about/the-book/'>John Yorke Into the woods - a five act journey into story</a><a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/6g0gbVncSkKyfejeVNRpcq'>Hamlet to Hamilton - Emily C A Snyder</a><a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/1aphgDiefw4FdO8EN5LJxy'>WASTELAND - The Dex Legacy</a>TUMBLR page - <a href='https://fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment.tumblr.com/nav'>F**k yeah character development</a> - worksheets a plenty<a href='https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html'>Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid</a> - oxygen food shelter sleep...Join our Discord community! Find the link in the show notes. Write to us at writersadwit@gmail.com with your thoughts and examples of effective character breakdowns.Get the scoop on audio drama news, opportunities, creative resources and more with The Fiction Podcast Weekly newsletter. For more info, visit <a href="https://www.thepodcasthost.com/fictionpodcastweekly/">The Podcast Host's Fiction Podcast Weekly</a>.&nbsp; Want to get in touch? You can send us a text message with the link at the top, email us at writersadwit@gmail.com, <a href='https://discord.gg/r63wGfgnzj'>join our Discord server</a>, or visit our website at <a href='https://adwit.org/'>adwit.org</a>. Share the love. Please write a review on <a href='https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/adwit-the-audio-drama-writers-1611240'>Podchaser</a> or on <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adwit-the-audio-drama-writers-independent-toolkit/id1557072227'>Apple Podcasts</a>. Thank you! Sarah and Lindsay

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