Who do you write to?
There’s a thread going on over on the Audio Drama Talk forums about “Breaking out”- that is, finding a larger audience with audio drama. The thread starter...
Self-Publishing through Lulu.com
I’ve just spent the afternoon reading through Lulu.com and I have to say it’s quite an interesting setup they’ve got there. Not only do they function as...
Chorus versus Staging
There generally seem to be two approaches to presenting audio drama- a staged approach and a chorus approach. A staged approach is exactly like a stage play,...
Speaking in Tongues
A post I recently put up on the Audio Drama Talk forums on the subject of having characters in audio dramas speak in archaic ways to represent...
Podcast Canadian Audiobook wins Real Award.
The Best Laid Plans, a satire about Canadian politics just won the prestigious Steve Leacock award here in Canada, which might not be that important except for...
Shifting Viewpoints
I just finished Chapter Six of Crocodile Princess out of a planned 26 or so Chapters. It looks like I might be writing mostly about book writing...
The Keys to Writing a Good Story
1) It’s about the characters. The story goes that someone broke all the possible plots down into 36 different situations, and I’ve heard 7 as well, and...
The Truth about Writers and Writing
Written in the heydey of the 20th century magazine era, Lemuel De Bra’s The Truth about Writers and Writing is an interesting article from 1924 about the...
Oral versus Aural
I’m running into an interesting question as I work on Crocodile Princess- since this is intended to be an audiobook should I be writing it to be...
Audiobooks
I just had the following e-mail exchange with a friend about Audiobooks: Friend: There seems to be a lot of love for Little Gou. It’ll be interesting...