podfic of harvest bread dreams!
WHEEE! PODFIC OF MY FIC!!!! IT IS AWESOME!!!
Background: One of the things [ I asked for] at oxoniensis's [ 2009 Fandom Free For All] was podfic of any of the stories from [De Re Coq Peg]. Since I stated on my request that I don't know what other authors' policies are but that I grant blanket permission for my own work, it is perhaps not surprising that the story that was podficced was [my own].
Yay for juniperphoenix's [ recording]!!! (14 min, 13 MB, [AA page])
So now that I've got the context out of the way, here's the squee, in rather random order. I'm fairly certain the paragraph breaks are arbitrary:
IT'S SO AWESOME! YAY! PODFICCING OF MY OWN FIC! It's awesome to have my words read aloud. :) :) This story is really amusing to me when I read it, but listening to it was even funnier somehow. There definitely were repeated instances of rolling around on my bed muffling laughter. A note about this fic: I've been told by N, whom I forced to read it once, that reading it was like having a tour inside my head. (So, welcome to my brain! It's weird in here but I seem to have a good time, hope you will too.) I hadn't quite realised how true that was until listening to the podfic.
juniperphoenix read the story very similarly to how I hear it in my head, which is neat. She also has great pacing and tone and emotion and does character voices well. I look forward to many more podfics from her in the future *crosses fingers* (I hope after having dipped her toes into the waters of podficcing that she decides to continue!)
Not only did she read the footnotes of the long title, she also read the recipe! The footnotes do kind of interrupt the flow of the title and maybe I should have cut them in one of the edits, but they amused me so much I didn't. I think it's really awesome that she read the recipe because listening to it showed me something about myself. I wasn't really expecting much out of listening to the recipe, but I really enjoyed it. See, I mostly learnt how to cook from being in the kitchen with people being show things. Or occasionally, being not in the kitchen but still talking with someone about techniques and methods and mentalities. I'm learnt plenty from books, but the ethos, if you will, of cooking is to me very much 'let me show you, here now you do it' rather than 'go read this and come back and try it yourself'. And I hadn't realised that consciously until I was sitting on my bed listening to juniperphoenix tell me how to make my bread. It just felt comforting and proper. I'd love to hear your opinions on being read the recipe.
Oh, and betas are awesome :) Many many thanks to winkingstar for the betaing-- after having listened to the story it's quite clear to me that she made it loads better, even if at the time I wasn't always convinced of the necessity of the changes. There's still things in the story that are perhaps slightly weak, or that I'd like to change if I let myself engage in perpetual edits. But as Pablo Picasso (I think) said, no work of art is ever finished, only abandoned. And I think that this is a story I can be proud of as it stands. So thank you to winkingstar and to everyone else who encouraged me to write it in the first place!
So not only is the podfic great to listen to on its own merits, but it's making me think about things too, which is always fun :)
note to self: update de re coq page with links to podfic some time when have mental energy to look at more html coding
FYI, the non-tl;dr version is: Yay for juniperphoenix's [recording] of [Bread Mountain Dreams] and [Harvest Bread Recipe] from [De Re Coquinaria Pegasi]!!! (14 min, 13 MB, 1400 words)
Background: One of the things [ I asked for] at oxoniensis's [ 2009 Fandom Free For All] was podfic of any of the stories from [De Re Coq Peg]. Since I stated on my request that I don't know what other authors' policies are but that I grant blanket permission for my own work, it is perhaps not surprising that the story that was podficced was [my own].
Yay for juniperphoenix's [ recording]!!! (14 min, 13 MB, [AA page])
So now that I've got the context out of the way, here's the squee, in rather random order. I'm fairly certain the paragraph breaks are arbitrary:
IT'S SO AWESOME! YAY! PODFICCING OF MY OWN FIC! It's awesome to have my words read aloud. :) :) This story is really amusing to me when I read it, but listening to it was even funnier somehow. There definitely were repeated instances of rolling around on my bed muffling laughter. A note about this fic: I've been told by N, whom I forced to read it once, that reading it was like having a tour inside my head. (So, welcome to my brain! It's weird in here but I seem to have a good time, hope you will too.) I hadn't quite realised how true that was until listening to the podfic.
juniperphoenix read the story very similarly to how I hear it in my head, which is neat. She also has great pacing and tone and emotion and does character voices well. I look forward to many more podfics from her in the future *crosses fingers* (I hope after having dipped her toes into the waters of podficcing that she decides to continue!)
Not only did she read the footnotes of the long title, she also read the recipe! The footnotes do kind of interrupt the flow of the title and maybe I should have cut them in one of the edits, but they amused me so much I didn't. I think it's really awesome that she read the recipe because listening to it showed me something about myself. I wasn't really expecting much out of listening to the recipe, but I really enjoyed it. See, I mostly learnt how to cook from being in the kitchen with people being show things. Or occasionally, being not in the kitchen but still talking with someone about techniques and methods and mentalities. I'm learnt plenty from books, but the ethos, if you will, of cooking is to me very much 'let me show you, here now you do it' rather than 'go read this and come back and try it yourself'. And I hadn't realised that consciously until I was sitting on my bed listening to juniperphoenix tell me how to make my bread. It just felt comforting and proper. I'd love to hear your opinions on being read the recipe.
Oh, and betas are awesome :) Many many thanks to winkingstar for the betaing-- after having listened to the story it's quite clear to me that she made it loads better, even if at the time I wasn't always convinced of the necessity of the changes. There's still things in the story that are perhaps slightly weak, or that I'd like to change if I let myself engage in perpetual edits. But as Pablo Picasso (I think) said, no work of art is ever finished, only abandoned. And I think that this is a story I can be proud of as it stands. So thank you to winkingstar and to everyone else who encouraged me to write it in the first place!
So not only is the podfic great to listen to on its own merits, but it's making me think about things too, which is always fun :)
note to self: update de re coq page with links to podfic some time when have mental energy to look at more html coding
FYI, the non-tl;dr version is: Yay for juniperphoenix's [recording] of [Bread Mountain Dreams] and [Harvest Bread Recipe] from [De Re Coquinaria Pegasi]!!! (14 min, 13 MB, 1400 words)