One of the things I’ve been considering for a while now is audio books–specifically recording audio of some of my stories, building up to a full version of BLOOD WILL TELL and eventually BLOOD IS THICKER. It’s a great exercise for finding flaws in the writing, as well.
I have some recording equipment. I could do it. Mainly, I’ve been waiting for allergy season to end so I won’t sound nasal doing it. In fact, I was going to record a short section of the next story I plan to e-publish, “Becoming Lioness”, and include it with this blog. It’d be a good place to start. The story starts with action. It’s not too long (just over 10,000 words). And It’d give me a chance to use the technique of reading aloud–and listening to the recording–as a final edit on the story. Unfortunately, the experiment proved that I’m not in good voice today. I kept getting hoarse in the parts that shouldn’t be. When I do get a decent recording, I promise to post part of it. I’ll keep trying, as I want to do the read aloud anyway.
Audio books would be another way of getting my stories out to readers (or listeners). Even a way of connecting, since it would be my voice in the recordings. Unfortunately, if I can’t get through a 10,000-word novelette (and I didn’t even get through the first scene this morning) I don’t stand a chance of reading an entire novel ten times that long aloud. I’ll have to keep working on that.
You don’t have to sell me. I’m already a huge audiobook fan, so I love the idea. Let me know how it works for you.
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I will. Just as soon as my throat is willing to cooperate with reading a whole scene through without getting hoarse. Just wish the first scene wasn’t so long.
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