Fighting For Our Right To Party

[zvi]

So, I am not actually directing you to go talk to people in an anon meme, but there's a long discussion about posting a story podfic first, text delayed, in the Inception anon meme on LJ.

It raises a few interesting questions which you might care to discuss.

Some questions:

1) How do you convince people to give podfic a try, if they don't intuitively grasp why it might be cool?
2) If a story only ever gets posted as podfic, are you keeping something from people who prefer text?
3) What are the arguments for and against simultaneous release of podfic and text versus podfic first release?
4) How do you present the idea to people of a staggered release without annoying them? How do you let the people who didn't want to listen to the audio that the text is finally available?
5) If a story is released podfic first, is that first podfic of it the canonical version of the text?
6) How do you write a story to be read?

Comments

[klb]

it's totally possible for someone to just sit down in front of a mic and tell a story without having anything written down

I've actually heard people do this in conversation. It's awesome and one of the reasons I love spending time with fannish people when I can. And I totally wish I could have whipped out my mic one of those times and made a recording, because it would have been perfect to share.

Oh man, now I am plotting a little about if I could get those same people in a room at one point and turn on the mic and just be like OKAY GO. Because that would be beautiful.

[paraka]

I actually find speaking so much easier than writing when it comes to getting my ideas out(which is why I asked if I could call you tonight). It's actually become pretty common for me to whip out my mic and saying a post before I type it up. When I try to type things out they're a lot more fragmented and less clear, so I'll talk things up and use that as a basis for writing it up later.

I haven't tried it specifically for fic yet but I think it might be a project for sometime in the future (ya know, when I have free time again :S).