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fandomfan asks what's so great about podfic?. I'm not sure that it's particularly useful to have that discussion with someone for whom the mere concept hits her embarrassment squick, but, in the more general case, why do you like podfic? Why do you like listening to it, why do you like making it, why do you like manipulating it (if you make covers or podbooks or work on one of the archives), why do you like teaching other people to do it, why do you like discussing it here?

And, even more so, what do you say when someone who doesn't already get it asks these questions?

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[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

As a listener, to both audio books and podfic, I love to be entertained while I'm driving (and I drive an incredible amount for my job), or while I'm walking or doing chores. I've painted rooms while listening to stories. I've walked many more miles than I would have, because I wanted to listen to more of a podfic.

And when I listened to my very first audiobook, Kim by Kipling, I really listend to the details that when I had read it I had skimmed. It made the story much deeper. And I will skim while reading, and I don't think it's a habit I can break.

Listening to podfic is a leisurely experience for me; I'm not in hurry, I want to take my time.

I don't feel any fourth wall breakage at all when I'm listening. I'm deeply drawn into the story and I very much like listening to really long podfics, many times in fandoms that I haven't even seen the show. I've gotten interested in several fandoms (Due South and SPN) just from listening to the podfics.

As a reader, I'm first of all making the podfics for myself. I re-listen to the ones I've made all the time. And I like learning the technical side of things, and experimenting with sound effects and music. (There is a debate about using music in podfics) I like matching up music that I think invokes a certain mood to go with the story.

(Let me just add right now that I also have started making non music version of my podfics for the benefit of anybody who's interested in something I recorded that doesn't like podfics with music or has difficulty hearing text read over sound effects or music)

I like picking stories from the writers on my flist to podfic. I like doing them as a return favor for my beta. I like recording a story as a gift for a friend.

I like recording my own stories, adding another layer onto the creative work I've done as a writer.

I like to podfic stories in my main fandom, as a way of promoting it.

I like participating in amplificathon, and occasionally, making comments on podficcing as a topic. That's my least favorite part, though. I mostly read this studio to see if I'm doing something that other people are going to object to.

I've always liked to read, and to read outloud. This is another way for me to be creative and it is fulfilling to me.

Laurie.