Dear Author

Oct 25, 2010 19:55

Dear Author,

When I was reading your fic, a peculiar thing happened to me-- I began to hear a voice (my own, I’m not that crazy) that was reading the prose aloud. I wondered how certain sentences would sound, how to do your excellent dialogue and  what music intros and outros and story breaks and perhaps, even sound effects that would go well with ( Read more... )

dear author, podfic

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abusing_sarcasm October 26 2010, 15:47:42 UTC
LOL! I love this! :D You are adorable!

And I have the Meow Mix song in my head now! *shakes fist*

Meow meow meow meow....

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lunchy_munchy October 28 2010, 10:20:28 UTC
And I have the Meow Mix song in my head now! *shakes fist*

BWAHAHAHA! My master plan! It is working!

This "dear author" is this really nifty idea I stole from another podficcer (and hopefully more readers will steal it too!) We readers go around asking for permission, but they're usually one liners like "may I podfic etc." (like I did with you!)which doesn't really explain what we expect from each other either during or after the recording process. Some readers in the community put forward a very solid argument regarding reader and author expectations which led to....dear authors :D Now hopefully we can all play in the sandbox together! Yay!

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