Exercise Goal - April

I did NOT set an exercise goal for the month of April (more's the pity), but I do have a goal for the entire year*, so I should've kept posting these.  I did, however, mark the chart every time I went for a run, as a very very small reward for doing it.  So, here's where we stand for the year:

So, I'm about a third of the way there, which isn't bad.  As the weather gets warmer, I do tend to want to go out and do stuff more often, so let's see if I can't get twenty or more days done in May.

*Exercise 200 days in 2023.

Awwdiobook Update 4-30

I actually got two chapters edited today . . . except I found errors in both of them.  Once, I said the wrong word, and the other time, there seemed to be some sort of hiccup in the middle of one of my lines, that sounded like I'd cut something out.  It was just a choice I made, trying to make a character sound exhausted, but it didn't really convey that.  So, no big deal.  I'll redo those two lines, and tomorrow, I'll count it as another completed chapter.

Audiobook Update - 4-29

That terrible dude, that walking filth, that animated bucket of you-know-what, that veritable . . . human scum, Scott Faust contacted me recently, and told me that he found errors in my audiobook of "Not the Same."  I was sad to hear it (but not SUPER sad, after all, he did buy the book*), and fixed the lines, but lamented I wouldn't be able to fix it on Audible without replacing every chapter in their half-convoluted, half-idiotic corrections process.

But then I looked, and they've updated it: Now you can simply upload a new Intro, or Author's Note, or Promo, or simply substitute a chapter without mistakes for the one with errors in it.  It's so simple, it breaks my heart a little to think of all my work out there that still has screw-ups in it.  So, as usual, if you find an error in one of my readings or audiobooks, please let me know, so I can fix it for the next guy. 

 Assuming there is a next guy.

*And you didn't.  Who's the human scum now?

Audiabook Updote 4-28

I did go ahead and re-record the whole darn chapter that was ruined by microphone shortage.  Also, the next chapter had a big chunk where it too went FUBAR.  Sad, but them's the breaks.  I'm still on my way, getting a chapter edited a day.  And if I really wanted this albatross off my back*, I should cut out another four hour block and get a trio of chapters edited, so I could take a day or two off.  But I haven't yet.

*I realize that the ship's called The Cormorant in this one, not The Albatross, but a squab's a squab, man.

Audiobook Update 4-27

Usually, I'm the most timid, submissive, push-overy, nut-less person you've ever seen.  Why, just today, my girlfriend mumbled, "Why do you keep letting those cars go ahead of you?  You've been here longer than them.  What, him too?"  And I didn't know what to say, except, "Honey, you realize I don't have a girlfriend, right?"  And she laughed and said, "That's no surprise to me, you pathetic cuck!" then she laughed and burst into flames like the Maleficent Dragon at Disneyland.

But there's one area in which I'm not a cringing, accommodating, cowering buttplug: and that's when I'm narrating audiobooks.  While doing "Cormorant," there are parts where characters shout orders in British(ish) accents, and I belt them out so loud, the screen goes absolutely blue with sound (and that's with my notoriously quiet audio).  I make no apologies, and only wish I could somehow transfer that uncaring self-righteousness to the rest of my everyday life.

I Join Big In A "Sepia Tone Prison" (Too)

So, over on Big's Anklecast, here's Part Too of Big's story "Sepia Tone Prison," followed by discussion with yours truly.  Check it out HERE.

Audiobook Update 4-26

Turns out, I'm not done after all.  There's a minor short in my microphone cord, and if you kink it just right, there's a hideous overpowering feedback that occurs.  It's happened for a few seconds in, oh, about twelve chapters.  But for some reason, in Chapter 32, the feedback was as persistent as a crackhead Michael Myers.  Nearly the entire chapter was unusable, to the point where I'll just do the whole thing again, except for one page.

Oh, and...

Audiobook Update 4-25

I did that thing I mentioned the other day.  The kids all went somewhere (I think fishing and shopping), and I grabbed the microphone stand (which, for once, is NOT a metaphor), and got them chapters done.

I made it all the way to end, even recording the little bit at the end where Abbie talks about her other work (not sure if she wanted me to or not, but she did it in the third person, so I figured I oughtta), and now only have editing, relines, re-editing, and the end credits left to do.

Audiobook Update 4-24

I'm still in that place where I want to do no work, so I edited another podcast through to the end today.  I won't apologize for it.  But I do need to get back on the horse.  Tomorrow.

Audiobook Update 4-23

I guess I finally hit that point where I can do no more for a while.  Too bad, I was making fairly good time (because I dragged my feet a bit in February, the work on the second half is much more time-pressured than the first).  The last chapter I recorded was fairly short, and I figured I could get it done in twenty minutes or less.  But as I narrated, I made more and more mistakes (and more and more after that), battling my own tongue and my own fatigue.  When I finally made it to the end, I looked at the time, and I'd been at it for more than forty minutes.  Not so good.

What's worse is, I've no doubt I'll have to re-record parts of it.  When I'm that tired, I don't realize when I mumble, or say the wrong word, or simply go silent in the middle of a sentence, and pick up again thirty seconds later.  It would've been better for me to have quit partway through and gone to sleep, then picked up again when I was feeling fresh.

Rish Outcast 249: Not the Same (After That)

Rish talks about his most recently-published novella and audiobook, "Not the Same."  Yep, it's the unidentical twins one.

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