Teddy Wayne
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208 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Teddy Wayne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was not in the first draft.
He didn't have that kind of a deep backstory that would inform why would he make all these bad choices.
And I hit upon the fact that he was an insecure kid growing up who, when his novel came out, suddenly had female attention.
Or maybe when he lost weight, too, and in college and beyond, he got more attention.
But then his novel landed him this alpha female, Lucy, his wife.
someone he would have otherwise considered out of his league.
So it was certainly well into the revisions, and I had not seen many portrayals of men with this kind of psychological hang-up in fiction.
It's obviously all over female fiction.
It's not much for male characters, and I thought it would be an interesting one to explore, and thought it would make sense, too, for why he'd be so obsessive about Astrid and her, as he calls it, immaculate body.
Yeah, he's not someone you're rooting for so much as interested in seeing what happens to him.
And that seems to be what I've been doing the last maybe five novels even.
Characters that we may even be repelled by and dislike, but we kind of are invested in their story.
And part of what you do is
Create, yes, identification, points of access early on in particular before they've done anything too bad.
Make us feel like we at least understand them.
We identify a little bit with them.
And then once you create that bond, we're willing to watch them make that bond fray with their decisions.
But I also have to watch out for the Philip Rothian style of writing her as this harpy.
And she doesn't like Stephen very much now, but she's also portrayed as incredibly competent, ambitious, and hardworking.
Loves her children, too, just shows it in a different way.
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