At the moment, I’m very tempted to put it aside and keep working on it behind the scenes until Christmas comes around again. With eleven episodes written (only eight recorded and four with a decent soundtrack and remastering) for the first year, and thirteen written for the next year’s story, I think it might be worth trying to get it all together so that I can do one podcast a day for the first twenty four days of December this coming year.
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In a nutshell, I’ve gotten plenty written to be podcasted… and little podcasted from what I’ve written. I think I need to focus more on the sound end of things so that I can actually produce. My writing and editing speed and reliability is not in question. My recording, soundtrack writing, and sound editing speed and reliability is.
As for what stories I feel are in a good enough place to start podcasting them, Murder Most Fowl is on the back burner until I can figure out how to set a steadier tone to the story. It’s all good and well to have a light-hearted take on a dark story, but so far the juxtaposition isn’t working well, and I need to figure out how to make it work. My pirate novel that I finished for NaNoWriMo the November before last is still being rewritten, and I don’t think it’s quite ready for prime time. And with summer peeking in the windows, it’s simply the wrong season for Saving Christmas.
Which, oddly enough, leaves Incorporated, the serial that is only about a quarter finished, as the one that I could best start publishing serially right now. Out of all of the stories that I’ve been working on so far, it’s the most episodic in style, and since it uses a female first-person voice, I won’t be using my own stuttering, mumbling, occasionally downright screwing up lines voice in the recording. Which will save a lot of time recording and editing.
Over the last week or two, I’ve been working on a musical style for the soundtrack to Incorporated. I posted a hint of the soundtrack style in my last post. I’ve decided to use bits and pieces of musical sketches to help reach out to other cyberpunk fans and writers via Tumblr. I’m posting musical sketches along with a writing prompt in a style of story that matches the music. Up until this point, I hadn’t done much with my Tumblr account, even though I know it can be used to reach out to others with similar interests as well as if not better than Twitter.
My tumblr account is at chickenscratchingdotcom.tumblr.com, and I really should add that to the links on my webpage now that I’m actually using it for something.
For now, it looks like the primary voice you’ll be hearing on Chickenscratched Serials in the near future will not be my own.
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