Is anyone else planning to release their Nanovel on Podiobooks.com or some kind of equivalent site?
I am. The creative freedom of audio is giving me all kinds of interesting and out-side-the-box ideas about how to write scenes. I use Jamendo to find music that is Creative Commons friendly, and I listen to it as I write each scene with the idea of maybe putting it in the podcast itself.
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Nov 9, 2007 - 16 05
Am I the only one? Or is there already a thread about this?
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Actually I didn't even know there was such a thing before your original post about it. Alas my speaking voice isn't the most user friendly. lol. I had a speech impediment as a child and I tend to not always speak as clearly as I aught. :)
----------Charles R. Brentner
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Nov 15, 2007 - 09 18
Yeah, I have trouble hearing, so I tend to slur my words. But I'm practicing with LibriVox, and I'm getting better.
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I've thought about it, but I kind of hate the sound of my own voice. It's something I might look into more thoroughly if I fail to sell my manuscripts through more traditional means in the future, though.
----------Jean Writes Genre
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Nov 17, 2007 - 00 00
I remember listening to an audiobook versions of a Star Wars novel. This one scene stands out for me in particular. It was a space battle, and it was very exciting. But when I listened to it later for my own research about how to write exciting space battles, I noticed that the prose was actually quite boring. A lot of the excitement came from the music and the sound effects, which made it seem frantic and claustrophobic.
jeanjeanie, I recommend reading the LibriVox instructions. A lot of LV volunteers hate their voices, too, but they sound fine to me. It's natural to not like the sound of your own voice, because we sound different vibrating the bones in our heads than we do vibrating a microphone. We're not used to it. But most people don't have much to fear about their voice.
Now their reading ability could use some work, but that's fixable with practice and guidance. Which is why using LibriVox would be a good idea for some training.
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