October's writing progress
The Reluctant Dragonrider
inches closer to publication. I'm still waiting for a few beta readers to come back to me. The ones who've responded so far haven't found any major problems, but better safe than sorry.
I wrote a fair chunk of my short story about the War of the Gods, but then put it aside to start recording an audiobook of Plague & Poison (volume 2 of The Barefoot Healer). I'm using all the lessons I learned when recording Death & Magic, so this is going much faster. I've spent a week and a half on it so far, and I'm about a third of the way through recording and editing. Getting that far into Death & Magic took me two months.
There are two main differences to my recording process this time. For the previous books, I did two takes of everything. This time I'm doing only one. If I notice a mistake while I'm recording, I'll do that bit again, but once I've got a recording that I think is good, I won't do another one. With the previous books, I found that the performances were usually so consistent between takes that there was little to choose between them, so I was wasting time recording the extra one, wasting time listening to both to decide which was better, and wasting time editing to cut out the take I didn't want. Of course, when I edit, I find a couple of mistakes in each chapter that I didn't notice during recording, but it's easy to make a note of them and re-record those bits at the start of the next recording session.
The second difference is that I'm editing each chapter as soon as possible after I record it. With the previous books, I recorded the whole book, then edited the whole book. Especially with Death & Magic, I put off the editing until I felt I had a long enough block of time to do it in one go, which meant a gap of more than a year between recording and editing. I don't know if editing as I go will actually make it faster, but it certainly feels faster, as the recording and editing are broken down into more manageable chunks. Who knows - Plague & Poison might even be on sale before Christmas!
I wrote a fair chunk of my short story about the War of the Gods, but then put it aside to start recording an audiobook of Plague & Poison (volume 2 of The Barefoot Healer). I'm using all the lessons I learned when recording Death & Magic, so this is going much faster. I've spent a week and a half on it so far, and I'm about a third of the way through recording and editing. Getting that far into Death & Magic took me two months.
There are two main differences to my recording process this time. For the previous books, I did two takes of everything. This time I'm doing only one. If I notice a mistake while I'm recording, I'll do that bit again, but once I've got a recording that I think is good, I won't do another one. With the previous books, I found that the performances were usually so consistent between takes that there was little to choose between them, so I was wasting time recording the extra one, wasting time listening to both to decide which was better, and wasting time editing to cut out the take I didn't want. Of course, when I edit, I find a couple of mistakes in each chapter that I didn't notice during recording, but it's easy to make a note of them and re-record those bits at the start of the next recording session.
The second difference is that I'm editing each chapter as soon as possible after I record it. With the previous books, I recorded the whole book, then edited the whole book. Especially with Death & Magic, I put off the editing until I felt I had a long enough block of time to do it in one go, which meant a gap of more than a year between recording and editing. I don't know if editing as I go will actually make it faster, but it certainly feels faster, as the recording and editing are broken down into more manageable chunks. Who knows - Plague & Poison might even be on sale before Christmas!
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