Turn the radio on, turn the radio up -- Good stories for podficcing

[zvi]

What sort of characteristics make a story good for podficcing? Are there any specific writing techniques that make it easier to record? Or what about making it easier to listen to? Are there specific characters who, when listening to a story from their POV, make it easier to fall into the story? Are there any authors that you'd point a new reader toward because they're really achievable?

I'd love to hear about either specific techniques or, if you can't isolate the techniques but do have excellent examples, please trot those out.

Comments

[zvi]

What was the fic? What was the solution?

[aethel]

Connection. The solution was to use text-reading software (??) on the Morse code bits, but if I remember correctly, each character had a different voice for their Morse coding style that illustrated their relative skill.

[sothcweden]

It was Connection by mad_maudlin. Her solution was so elegant that I recced it during Amplirecathon. I think she used text-to-speech software. The audiofic archive page is here

[lunate8]

Just confirming aethel's and sothcweden's answers. The text-to-speech was done using the "Speech" feature in TextEdit (Mac OS 10.5). The voices were included on my Mac, and I used "Fred" for Sheppard, "Bruce" sped up about 20% for McKay, "Alex" for Zelenka, and "Vicki" for Keller.