Writing for The Rookery Radio Hour I’ve gotten to create some out there, stuff. One of my favorites was the sidekick character, Feliciano, in my preteen demo, reality / educational, old time radio show “Tex Cardinal: Protector of the Wild West.” Imagine it’s 1930 something, you turn on the radio after school and listen to our titular hero help people in situations unique to the west and learn a life lesson in the process.

I had fun writing Feliciano due to the extreme dialogue motif used. Feliciano only spoke in questions. They were often leading questions, but questions all the same. I was asked several times if he ALWAYS had to talk in questions. I answered yes, every sentence in every line of dialogue must be in the form of a question. Just like Jeopardy. If the pattern had been inconsistent the effect wouldn’t have been the same. It would have been annoying and lots of opportunities for the character would have been lost.

Several other speech patterns were used when writing this which helped sell the framing story of the radio show for kids, and to set the location of the characters.

Enjoy, and until next post – happy trails…

Tex Cardinal: Protector of the Wild West in Cattle Rustlin’