I have to write stuff and then read it out here and there for work - and you find that what is in your notes isn't always what comes out of your mouth. It's an interesting process and definitely different to writing fiction.
Although I will sometimes sit at the monitor and read stories quietly aloud to myself for some obscure reason - the looks you collect are quite interesting...
I like to read the dialogue of our A/K fics aloud but not necessarily the narrative parts.
Have just realised that this journal entry is reinventing the wheel... I basically said all this while rabbiting on about Kipling... who understood very well the difference between the written and the spoken word, hence why the Just So Stories and a lot of his poems positively beg to be read aloud whereas the Jungle Book doesn't.
I am glad to have turned my fic writing to a practical real-life use though. Another justification for it, as if I needed one...
Certainly bears saying several times - and the Kipling anaology is wonderful.
No justification ever needed for your writing (just realised that I used the word justification in a naughty ridiculous sentence in Monty Python so obviously feeling particularly silly again)
Speech turned out well? Great! Definitely, no justification needed either way. :) Though it's nice to have some practical application, I think, sounds like a good bonus. Looking back, my writing helped me to improve in other areas, like job-related translation, but these two passions kind of aid each other.
I have to write stuff and then read it out here and there for work - and you find that what is in your notes isn't always what comes out of your mouth. It's an interesting process and definitely different to writing fiction.
Although I will sometimes sit at the monitor and read stories quietly aloud to myself for some obscure reason - the looks you collect are quite interesting...
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Have just realised that this journal entry is reinventing the wheel... I basically said all this while rabbiting on about Kipling... who understood very well the difference between the written and the spoken word, hence why the Just So Stories and a lot of his poems positively beg to be read aloud whereas the Jungle Book doesn't.
I am glad to have turned my fic writing to a practical real-life use though. Another justification for it, as if I needed one...
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No justification ever needed for your writing (just realised that I used the word justification in a naughty ridiculous sentence in Monty Python so obviously feeling particularly silly again)
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