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fullupwithfire) wrote2019-03-07 09:45 pm
fullupwithfire) wrote2019-03-07 09:45 pm
I got a lump in my throat cause you're gonna sing the words wrong
General update: Things are going as things go; nothing bad's really been happening, but nothing all that interesting has been up lately, either. I work, I poke at things, and mostly I'm very tired. I haven't been great at creative stuff lately, but I'm not as bad as I could be, even if nothing's getting really finished. (I'm actually 11/120 days for Get Your Words Out, and I think that's largely due to signing up to do word wars a couple times a week; it gets me to try and do something, and that helps.)
I am in a vaguely talky, sorta-lonely, brains-are-strange space this week. Not terrible, not even bad really, just stuck in a desire to reach out and not sure how to do so. So over the next day or two I may throw up some small babbly posts on topics pinging around my brain lately, or with some batches of recs, just to try and get it out of my system.
And on that note: So the main thing I accomplished last week was sorting through fic folders for things to try podficcing.
I've been wanting to try for ages now, and I just keep chickening out. (Actually technically I've done it like twice? But that was six years ago and I have not touched them since then and I'm sure I'd twitch at them now.)
But I have a mic, and I think doing the streaming helped a tiny bit. In part because I got a couple of people being very nice about how I sounded, so even though I'm not a fan of my voice, I don't feel like I suck completely at reading things, despite my lisp and my occasional weird pronunciations and what feels to me like my voice falling naturally into a really awkward register, which are all I can ever get from hearing myself. (I've also been playing with one of those karaoke apps, and while I'm not thrilled to hear my own singing voice still, doing it reminded me how much I used to really love singing at/recording at/reading things at people, which is helping my desire to really try and finally do this.)
And it's one of the more doable options on my "non-writing creative" list to try -- like, I'm not saying I think it's necessarily easy, but we own mics and Audacity is free, which puts it above vidding, and I haven't been wanting and failing for like fifteen-plus years, which means I don't have the complicated relationship I do with drawing.
Anyway, I have lists, and I have thoughts, and I am Hopeful, so we'll see where it goes from there. On the other hand, I'm nervous as fuck, most of the stuff on my list is longer than I want to start with, and I keep finishing work late enough in the day that I don't have the energy to do other things, so... yeah.
Also I'm trying to find tutorials and tips and all the ones I had saved were on LJ and I can't find them anymore. So if anyone has anything that's still up that they can share, I'd appreciate that.
(The other thing I'm stalling on is if I want to create an AO3 pseud for it. But then, I honestly kind of want to change my AO3 name in general, I just need to figure out what to. And when I do that, maybe I won't care? But having one steadily for podfic stuff may be good if I get into it. But. Augh, names are hard.)
(On the other hand if I make a podfic pseud I could make it a Radio Hour joke/reference and that pleases me.)
I am in a vaguely talky, sorta-lonely, brains-are-strange space this week. Not terrible, not even bad really, just stuck in a desire to reach out and not sure how to do so. So over the next day or two I may throw up some small babbly posts on topics pinging around my brain lately, or with some batches of recs, just to try and get it out of my system.
And on that note: So the main thing I accomplished last week was sorting through fic folders for things to try podficcing.
I've been wanting to try for ages now, and I just keep chickening out. (Actually technically I've done it like twice? But that was six years ago and I have not touched them since then and I'm sure I'd twitch at them now.)
But I have a mic, and I think doing the streaming helped a tiny bit. In part because I got a couple of people being very nice about how I sounded, so even though I'm not a fan of my voice, I don't feel like I suck completely at reading things, despite my lisp and my occasional weird pronunciations and what feels to me like my voice falling naturally into a really awkward register, which are all I can ever get from hearing myself. (I've also been playing with one of those karaoke apps, and while I'm not thrilled to hear my own singing voice still, doing it reminded me how much I used to really love singing at/recording at/reading things at people, which is helping my desire to really try and finally do this.)
And it's one of the more doable options on my "non-writing creative" list to try -- like, I'm not saying I think it's necessarily easy, but we own mics and Audacity is free, which puts it above vidding, and I haven't been wanting and failing for like fifteen-plus years, which means I don't have the complicated relationship I do with drawing.
Anyway, I have lists, and I have thoughts, and I am Hopeful, so we'll see where it goes from there. On the other hand, I'm nervous as fuck, most of the stuff on my list is longer than I want to start with, and I keep finishing work late enough in the day that I don't have the energy to do other things, so... yeah.
Also I'm trying to find tutorials and tips and all the ones I had saved were on LJ and I can't find them anymore. So if anyone has anything that's still up that they can share, I'd appreciate that.
(The other thing I'm stalling on is if I want to create an AO3 pseud for it. But then, I honestly kind of want to change my AO3 name in general, I just need to figure out what to. And when I do that, maybe I won't care? But having one steadily for podfic stuff may be good if I get into it. But. Augh, names are hard.)
(On the other hand if I make a podfic pseud I could make it a Radio Hour joke/reference and that pleases me.)
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