Welcome to day 13 of Thingadailies.
Call Him Mister Adopted!
Yes, Mister has been adopted from the shelter. It took one day longer than I thought it would, but that can only be because nobody walked through the adoption center yesterday. How could someone not love this goofball?
In other news, potential adopters may be coming by to meet Gnocchi! I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high since we haven't yet scheduled a time, but it's still exciting.
Ephemera
The thing for the day is an audio recording of my short story, Ephemera.
I haven't touched my recording equipment since I finished the Shift Happens audiobook. So it took a bit to get back into the swing of things when recording this short story. (Yes, I read almost half the story before I noticed it was recording from the wrong input. It defaults to my laptop's built-in microphone, which is never the one I want to use. I really wish Audacity had a way of disabling input and output choices.)
Anyhow, now I remember how many irritating noises I make when speaking. How does anyone ever talk to me? Also, I couldn't get Audacity to talk to my Bose headphones when I was editing. I remember having that problem before, but I think I could sometimes get them working again. Not today, though.
It wasn't until I finished throwing an image onto it in iMovie that I remembered Jamie saying she creates a short clip in Canva and has it repeat. Oh well. It's late and I still need to add words to the current cozy, so this will have to do.
Onward!
5 comments:
Never put fingers near a feeding gargoyle!!! Just so you know, the gargoyle food doesn't need to be refrigerated. It does just fine stored outside. Of course, it may attract more gargoyles, so you might want to keep it in the garage if you have one!!!
It's a good story to record--no voices! You did great.
I don't think it needs more imagery fwiw. I tend to start audio and then move away while it plays or listen with headphones on. I did some shorts over at my blog: http://www.bearmountainbooks.com/audio-stories-sedona-shorts-dragons-and-a-devil/ This was before I learned to do fancier voices. I learned a lot from Lori Barkin when she recorded Null Witch! She's like a studio full of actors all rolled in one!
Thanks! I definitely need the practice. As far as the imagery goes, I think YouTube can sometimes get weird if the images are too static, but I don't exactly know what they check for.
Yeah, I'm thinking about doing another short story or book with my brother doing the male voices. I'm thinking about it, but not very hard. It's a ton of work and pretty difficult to make a name for it for listeners.
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