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Originally Posted by barryem
Anyway they discussed things like how to change the very least in a book to make it a palatable audiobook. I don't remember a lot of details about that but it mostly involved removing things like "he said" and "she said" when they were superfluous and made the narration awkward.
Another favorite topic was the pronunciation of names ...
It was a beautiful thing while it lasted. I still miss it.
Barry
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Thanks for that insight. I understand streamlining the text to make it smoother in the spoken version. I've also noticed while making recordings that sometimes you need "he said" where you might not in the print version. It's actually affected the way I write my stories to know that I'm going to be recording them later. There are shortcuts you can take in text that you can't in audio.
Pronunciation. That's one place where a writer has the advantage in reading their own work. And emphasis. Tone. Other narrators can make a good guess, but the writer knows. Pronunciation of regular words and place names not invented by the author on the other hand ...
I hate it when something beautiful dies.
rjb