that was so cool
Jan. 3rd, 2007 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schemingreaderA friend of mine from when I first moved here in 1988 came for a visit. In the first month or so that I lived here, I was the decoy for a surprise party for her birthday. I took her out to dinner and didn't let her pay, and then took her home where the surprise party was happening. And she said that it was more fun being out to dinner with me.
So that's our history. We have had a lot of fun together. Anyway, she's been in London for the last six months and is going back to Colorado where she's in grad school. She recalled that six months ago when we last saw each other, that writing fan fiction was pretty much the only happy thing in my life.
So she asked to hear about it.
So I told her about what I have learned, and she confided that she's read some SGA slash. Then--I read her some of my writing! I read the beginning of The Heart's Obligations--which sounded much better than I anticipated--and Blue Tranquilium. I read smut out loud! I also read her a Snupin Crack!fic.
She laughed her tuchus off.
I sound funny when I say the word "fuck" as a verb rather than as an expletive.
I have a very strong Ohio accent and very clear enunciation, which makes pseudo-British speech sound very odd.
I love reading my work and getting to watch and listen while someone cracks up. It really would be amazing to do this for a living. Probably what I liked about teaching.
So that's our history. We have had a lot of fun together. Anyway, she's been in London for the last six months and is going back to Colorado where she's in grad school. She recalled that six months ago when we last saw each other, that writing fan fiction was pretty much the only happy thing in my life.
So she asked to hear about it.
So I told her about what I have learned, and she confided that she's read some SGA slash. Then--I read her some of my writing! I read the beginning of The Heart's Obligations--which sounded much better than I anticipated--and Blue Tranquilium. I read smut out loud! I also read her a Snupin Crack!fic.
She laughed her tuchus off.
I sound funny when I say the word "fuck" as a verb rather than as an expletive.
I have a very strong Ohio accent and very clear enunciation, which makes pseudo-British speech sound very odd.
I love reading my work and getting to watch and listen while someone cracks up. It really would be amazing to do this for a living. Probably what I liked about teaching.
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Date: 2007-01-03 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 12:03 pm (UTC)Luckily, my husband was doing everything he could to make sure he didn't heard ONE WORD.
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Date: 2007-01-03 08:34 am (UTC)... I could carry you with me on my MP3 player, everywhere I go....
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Date: 2007-01-03 12:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 09:51 am (UTC)I usually read my stories out loud to myself, just to hear if the words and the sentences sound right together. But I've never read to anyone else. I really can't considering the stories I write and my family's tastes.
I would like to hear The Heart's Obligations read.
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Date: 2007-01-03 12:06 pm (UTC)Perhaps I should do a podcast of Heart's Obligations. First I have to finish this last chapter, which I'm still writing.
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Date: 2007-01-03 10:32 am (UTC)It would be great to have more voice posts. I love to hear the author's voices with their stories.
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Date: 2007-01-03 12:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 12:28 pm (UTC)But, you know, I guess your accent experience is a bit like when I imagine someone to have a very dark voice, and then I read what they say. My voice is rather high, so that's kind of weird. When I was still in school, a friend and I wrote a little story about cowboys in the wild west, and recorded it with a tape recorder. It sounded awful - two eleven year old girls trying to sound rough and manly. :-) After that, anything else can be counted as an improvement. ;-)
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Date: 2007-01-03 12:30 pm (UTC)I'm brainstorming, and probably inappropriately, but...have you thought about contacting any of the podcast folks to see if they would add a regular feature like that to their casts? Or maybe even seeing if a few people would like to put together a weekly podcast to showcase their favorite writers reading their works?
Another thought: in the Professionals fandom, Jilly has recorded tapes of the "Larton" series. I've got a copy of the tapes, and they're fun to listen to while driving or working around the house. That's from years ago - dvds or (better yet) downloads might be something that could be fun and cost-effective to put together.
Of course, the sad part about that would be that you wouldn't really get to see your audience. But it could be fun to ask con organizers to have a reading room at each con, with sign-ups for times (this may already be happening - I haven't been to any HP cons, so sorry if I'm reinventing the wheel). Wiscon does that, and a lot of professional SFF writers (primarily women, since it's a feminist con) give amazing readings. (And now I'll just be quiet and not propose any more work-intensive ideas to a writer who is already putting a TON of time into fandom...and thank you for all you do, by the way, you amazing person! *g*)
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Date: 2007-01-03 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 06:09 pm (UTC)Hell, the little bit of smut I have written for collabs have left me blushing just to share in print before the "final product" was done. :)
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Date: 2007-01-03 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 06:28 pm (UTC)Anyway, I wouldn't mind doing a voice recording of some fic for online, because even online friends who have become RL friends have gotten to know me online through the smut. *G* But RL people who don't know about the fanfic? Yikes, that's scary!
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Date: 2007-01-03 07:46 pm (UTC)