After quite a few months of focusing on my real job, and going 0 for 4 with agents on my manuscript, I decided to solicit feedback on my audiobook from listeners I hired on Upwork. I never did this the first time, because my beta “readers” were actually readers…of the...
Some days, it gets exhausting. Like today. It’s good, it’s fun, but it’s exhausting. There’s some glitch in the Voice Recorder app on OSX that distorts the sound at random times. This means that I have to check and often re-record several...
Lemme tell you, when you’re trying to get the audio files right, each minute of recording and editing can take 20 or more. As it stands, I’ve got almost 49 minutes recorded, and that’s roughly 19% of the text that needs recording. I’m using iMovie because of its...
When I began writing, the first structures I saw were generic guidelines about how to use theme, rising action, climax, and denouement (resolution). Shortly after I began working with a few editors on a freelance basis, I heard about the “Save the Cat”...
I’m not sure why it took me this long to realize this, but outlining should have come first. Perhaps it was because I enjoyed the escape from my professional life, which involves constant outlining and boundary-setting on my normally free-wheeling writing style....
