: In high school, I had onstage roles in two plays: Verges, the headborough to
: Dogberrry’s constable, in Much Ado About Nothing and Harriet, a bearded
: woman, in The Werewolf’s Curse or Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow. While it
: certainly seems unfair to compare Billy St. John to the Bard himself, I
: did vastly prefer the Shakespearean role, mainly due to the forced
: direction of the line reads from the script itself....

: - DilDev

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The comparisons to YA fiction were interesting, especially as you draw from a crop that came after my own formative years (and looking back I don't think that was a particular genre I gravitated towards, although I did read Redwall and Harry Potter.)

I will personally defend adverbs. They can be overdone, but in a non-visual medium I always appreciated that I could "see" how the characters were talking.