Hey Jack, I have a somewhat scattershot approach to your entries. Today I was walking and wanted an audio file. Loved Comeuppance! Also loved you reading it. This might get me in trouble, but my enjoyment of your reading leads me to give my opinion on the Camembert‘s Kitchen. Having read it first myself, then listened to the audio file, I found the narrator read too quickly and swallowed the end of sentences. The story, your writing, has too much information and nuance packed into every word, and sentence to let some of it go unheard. I think you should re-record it yourself.
Thank you!! I’m glad the audio edition added something to the story for you. I felt especially qualified to narrate comeuppance because I think the narrator’s voice in this one is pretty close to my own internal voice (minus a handful of years, maybe).
In terms of Camembert, that one’s a tough assignment! As a story, it has a strange flow because it has long stretches of detailed description and then fast paced dialogue. In Charlotte’s reading, I think she absolutely nailed the dialogue and characterization, so I think her version added a lot to the story. But I do agree the descriptive sections didn’t work as well in the audio, which might be an inherent difficulty to reading the story out loud or might be because she was focusing on the quicker flow of the dialogue.
With that said, audio recordings are a whole new medium for me (and my friends who helped read them) so I’m very open to feedback! Thanks for your thoughts, I’m glad they’re bringing up thoughts and new ideas about my stories.
Hey Jack, I have a somewhat scattershot approach to your entries. Today I was walking and wanted an audio file. Loved Comeuppance! Also loved you reading it. This might get me in trouble, but my enjoyment of your reading leads me to give my opinion on the Camembert‘s Kitchen. Having read it first myself, then listened to the audio file, I found the narrator read too quickly and swallowed the end of sentences. The story, your writing, has too much information and nuance packed into every word, and sentence to let some of it go unheard. I think you should re-record it yourself.
Thank you!! I’m glad the audio edition added something to the story for you. I felt especially qualified to narrate comeuppance because I think the narrator’s voice in this one is pretty close to my own internal voice (minus a handful of years, maybe).
In terms of Camembert, that one’s a tough assignment! As a story, it has a strange flow because it has long stretches of detailed description and then fast paced dialogue. In Charlotte’s reading, I think she absolutely nailed the dialogue and characterization, so I think her version added a lot to the story. But I do agree the descriptive sections didn’t work as well in the audio, which might be an inherent difficulty to reading the story out loud or might be because she was focusing on the quicker flow of the dialogue.
With that said, audio recordings are a whole new medium for me (and my friends who helped read them) so I’m very open to feedback! Thanks for your thoughts, I’m glad they’re bringing up thoughts and new ideas about my stories.