As someone who has been podficced and made a couple of unpublished podfics... I'm for adaptation! For fewer conflicts & problems I think it'd be best if the person asked the author for permission first-- authors will feel differently about having their works transformed and their wishes ought to be respected. If they want each word preserved, that's cool.
Myself, I write for an audience that'll be reading through written text. If a podficcer told me that changing some wordings would improve the text in audio format, I'd give them the green light. I'd also be interested to see what deeper changes someone might want to make, in changing rating or shortening a scene etc. I'd want to know why and how, but... I'd like to try to be fairly flexible. Of course I'd refuse certain things-- such as the insertion of racist content-- but if the podficcer suggested changes that improved the fic/podfic, I'd love that! I know my work is flawed and I'd like to see suggestions on how to improve it.
In a way, I think a podfic does change the original story in and of itself. By giving vocal intonation, determining the pace of the reading, and so forth, it's not quite the original version. It's transformative! And since the entire enterprise of fic is transformative, I personally wouldn't want to say "but no the changes stop here." I want other people to be able to take my creations and change it so it's how they see it, much as I took someone else's work and fiddled it to fit my vision. (Which makes me think-- what if instead of releasing a remix fic in written format, it were released as an a podfic?)
Of course, I can see why other people wouldn't want adaptations of their own works and again I think such wishes should be respected. I also wanted to throw out some ideas supporting the notion of adaptation.
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Myself, I write for an audience that'll be reading through written text. If a podficcer told me that changing some wordings would improve the text in audio format, I'd give them the green light. I'd also be interested to see what deeper changes someone might want to make, in changing rating or shortening a scene etc. I'd want to know why and how, but... I'd like to try to be fairly flexible. Of course I'd refuse certain things-- such as the insertion of racist content-- but if the podficcer suggested changes that improved the fic/podfic, I'd love that! I know my work is flawed and I'd like to see suggestions on how to improve it.
In a way, I think a podfic does change the original story in and of itself. By giving vocal intonation, determining the pace of the reading, and so forth, it's not quite the original version. It's transformative! And since the entire enterprise of fic is transformative, I personally wouldn't want to say "but no the changes stop here." I want other people to be able to take my creations and change it so it's how they see it, much as I took someone else's work and fiddled it to fit my vision. (Which makes me think-- what if instead of releasing a remix fic in written format, it were released as an a podfic?)
Of course, I can see why other people wouldn't want adaptations of their own works and again I think such wishes should be respected. I also wanted to throw out some ideas supporting the notion of adaptation.