From Roga

[zvi]

Roga would like to talk about re-editing and re-writing works for podficcing.

Would readers be interested in editing works for podficcing, whether for content (e.g. sex scenes), length, adding dialogue tags, etc.? Does "permission to record" cover a blanket "permission to adapt"?

How would authors feel about re-writing stories so they are easier to be read or to be understood orally? For instance, if your alien language just isn't pronounceable by human beings, or if you've written something in an experimental, visual structure.

And, Roga didn't ask this, but I would like to know, how would we, as listeners, react to getting a story that was changed from the text? How extensive would the changes have to be for you to want a heads up before you downloaded? Would you want the changes indicated in the metadata or also during the story reading?

Comments

[niko]

OOC, did you say anything about it to the reader, or just let it sit?

This is something I've been pondering lately from the reader-side... fretting over mistakes that I might not notice despite beta-ing and multiple listens. (Just the other day, I realized that I'd read a sentence that had the word "boat" in it about TEN times, and *EVERY* time, I'd said the word "ship" without realizing. If I wasn't having so much trouble with the line for other reasons, I might never even have noticed.)

[zvi]

I didn't say anything. I feel like it would be churlish, like if someone knitted socks for you and you said, "Oh, you dropped some stitches." I mean, yes, technically, an error has occurred, but now I have HANDMADE SOCKS. How can I complain?

By the same token, people are just about never moved to make secondary fanwork of my stuff, so I don't feel like I can say anything but "Yay! Go look!" if it's of a minimal standard of quality.

[busaikko]

Thread-jumping: When people have read my fic, they send me a copy of the finished reading before posting, for me to listen to. If I know they are working with Audacity (or can otherwise make changes easily), I would mention it at that stage. (And if I miss it or let it go at that stage, then I would consider that my own fault.)

[kaizoku]

It actually bothers me, as a listener, that I probably would never know there were changes (unless I was reading the story as I listened to it or knew it really well.) And it wouldn't bother me so much if I knew what the differences were or even knew that they existed. I suppose that's just one of the inherent risks of podficcing.