Process: Essay vs Story

[whipchick]

I spent Sunday and Monday adapting my essay, Kalighat, into a five-minute story to tell at The Moth StorySLAM in Chicago last night

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[kandigurl]

Well done, congrats on the win! I listened to it, and now I think I'll read for the differences. :)

[whipchick]

Thanks! BTW, I am terribly remiss in getting back to you on your pages--I've been carrying them in my bag since May. Thanks for your patience :)

[kandigurl]

It's all good. I know what it's like to get super behind on a project, I'm not worried about it. It's a gift and I am patient. :)

[blythe025]

Congrats!

Also, that's a cool way to do an edit, working your way backward. I will have to try that with some of my own writing sometime.

[whipchick]

Thanks! I'm debating trying it in a book next!

[blythe025]

Whoah. That would be an interesting challenge.

[tigrkittn]

Congratulations! That was fabulous.

[whipchick]

Thank you!

Hell yes I want to listen

[drwex]

Mazal tov on the win. I'm impressed you can edit something like this without some kind of audience feedback. I have to tell my stories TO someone in order to edit them, even if it's a friend. I edit a lot based on the reactions I see.

Now I have listened and your voice is not even a little how I imagined it. That's not bad, but a statement about how I envision things.

Re: Hell yes I want to listen

[whipchick]

Thanks! I think it comes easier with practice--I've got an acting background, so I'm used to delivering things out loud to myself :) And I did do it in the kitchen with my friend, and you're right - it points up more issues when someone else is there.

How funny about the voice! I wonder if that means I don't write in the same voice I speak in...

Re: Hell yes I want to listen

[drwex]

Few people write in the voice they speak in. I was surprised at how much Neil Gaiman does write as he speaks (or vice versa). I have a pretty deliberately affected voice i use for storytelling that is different from my usual voice.

[cos]

I just finally got around to listening, and it wasn't until the end that I recognized it as something I must've read in your LiveJournal in the past ... which I'd forgotten you linked to at the beginning of this post.