It's Beatle-pony-reading time! · 10:48pm Jul 19th, 2015
Hey, guys, I'm not dead! That's pretty much the real reason I'm writing this blog post.
Hello, dear listener. Enter freely and of your own will. (Podfic narrator on hiatus; any pronouns)
Hey, guys, I'm not dead! That's pretty much the real reason I'm writing this blog post.
I'm only going to make a short post today, but I'd like to acknowledge one of the better-known fanfic authors on this website: Windlife.
I recently did a reading of one of their more acknowledged stories, an unfortunately unfinished piece called "An Alicorn's Struggle." The reading can be found here.
As I write this, the raw file for Chapter 5 is being exported, and Von Snootingham is in the midst of Chapter 4 - which bodes very well. Having finished Chapter 5, I can only assume that we've pretty neatly made it out of the exposition stage, whether that sounds pretentious or not - because if I have learned anything from watching Breaking Bad, it is that any time it feels like there's a lull at the end of a chapter in someone's story, it very likely means that a lot is about to start
I've started work on Chapter 5, and in the meantime have been reading a lot more than in the past few months. It's been a peaceful few weeks.
I've been given a few pointers from Ether Echoes himself concerning the different sounds of main characters, and attempted so far to retain a kind of consistency in the way of vocal tone and pitch, as I've always lacked the confidence to speak for very long in a dialect not my own, as strange as that sounds. Applejack has given me a little trouble in that field, particularly, but I hope you will understand: I don't want you to feel as though you must be too kind to me once chapter 4 comes out.
I've been recording my voice for the past few months with a headset, which is good for internet calls when I just want to have a conversation on Skype or Google. It's definitely useless for singing or reading, however; it picks up background noises like a fly picks up diseases.
Since the fanfiction was first introduced to me by my good friend MrRidley, known to me as Nick, I've been curious about reading it, but never considered it seriously until he informed me a few weeks ago that its author was looking for someone to do an audiobook. Of course, I leapt at the chance immediately. I will state here and now that I am not a pegasister: I am one of those strange sympathetic non-fan friends or family members of