(I am involved in a plan to run an upcoming challenge that would involve something like this.)
I see what you mean about the problems of never making a text version available, and I agree after reading your explanation that that would be a bad thing to set a precedent for.
I like the idea of making the transcript available immediately but having it as a text or rtf file. I agree that that takes away a lot of the traditional sense of the text version of the story being primary, and it also takes away the issues of withholding or making people ask for accommodations. I wonder if at that point it would still be good for the story to be posted a month later, or if it would be better for the point that was being made to have it as text-only anyway.
Now I'm trying to think of the author side. I wouldn't want to downplay their really valuable contribution to the podfic by making it seem like their writing wasn't super-important to the final piece. I mean, The Social Network needs Jesse Eisenberg *and* Aaron Sorkin, to give an example that totally shows where my mind's at lately. (And hm, thinking that way, I'd definitely want to use the term script instead of transcript, I think.)
Re: the last part, these stories would be written primarily to be performed as audio, but they'd be by authors in the habit of writing fic, so I am not sure how different they would end up being from normal fic. That would probably vary author to author.
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(I am involved in a plan to run an upcoming challenge that would involve something like this.)
I see what you mean about the problems of never making a text version available, and I agree after reading your explanation that that would be a bad thing to set a precedent for.
I like the idea of making the transcript available immediately but having it as a text or rtf file. I agree that that takes away a lot of the traditional sense of the text version of the story being primary, and it also takes away the issues of withholding or making people ask for accommodations. I wonder if at that point it would still be good for the story to be posted a month later, or if it would be better for the point that was being made to have it as text-only anyway.
Now I'm trying to think of the author side. I wouldn't want to downplay their really valuable contribution to the podfic by making it seem like their writing wasn't super-important to the final piece. I mean, The Social Network needs Jesse Eisenberg *and* Aaron Sorkin, to give an example that totally shows where my mind's at lately. (And hm, thinking that way, I'd definitely want to use the term script instead of transcript, I think.)
Re: the last part, these stories would be written primarily to be performed as audio, but they'd be by authors in the habit of writing fic, so I am not sure how different they would end up being from normal fic. That would probably vary author to author.