{"id":5386,"date":"2010-10-02T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T17:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2010-10-02T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T17:31:16","slug":"on-recording-a-drabble-podfic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5386","title":{"rendered":"On Recording a Drabble Podfic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I quite enjoy writing drabbles, short stories of exactly 100 words, and a month ago I walked through my creative process in writing a Merlin<\/i> drabble<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This morning, for no particular reason except that I had a computer microphone handy, I decided to do an audio recording of a different Merlin<\/i> drabble.<\/p>\n

It’s a story that some of you may not have seen. It’s called “The Twain in Camelot<\/a>,” and it’s the (very short) tale of a visit by Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (of Fritz Leiber’s heroic fantasy fiction) making a visit to Uther Pendragon’s Camelot. It’s really a misnomer to say that it’s a Merlin<\/i> drabble, as the tale isn’t about<\/i> the world of Merlin<\/i>; it only happens to be set<\/i> there.<\/p>\n

The idea came to me, as many ideas do, on the morning train — Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser travel the world (and to other worlds) and have all sorts of adventures, and what if one of their adventures brought them to Camelot? I wrote it out longhand, letting the sentences grow, letting the words determine the direction very much as you see it above. I truly didn’t know where it was going until it was done; I was more interested in the words themselves than with any sort of sensible narrative.<\/p>\n

I’ve long been a fan of Leiber’s work — “Lean Times in Lankhmar” is my all-time favorite short story<\/a> — and I especially love his style where entire books<\/i> could be written just from a throwaway line in some of the stories. That was the kind of feel<\/i> that I wanted with this little tale; it may not work on its own, as it’s a little removed from the characters and the situation, but if you know the source material it makes sense<\/i> and I think it works. Suffice it to say, I enjoyed writing this little tale.<\/p>\n

This morning, after listening to Weekend Edition<\/i> on NPR, I decided to record an audiobook of this two sentence drabble. After denoising the track, I then tracked it to “Traveling to Rivendell,” a track from Vivendi’s score for The Hobbit<\/i> video game of about seven years ago. The final result worked out nicely, I think.<\/p>\n

Even if it is only one minute long. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Without further ado, for those who want to hear my melodious voice…<\/p>\n

“The Twain in Camelot”: The Audio Book<\/a><\/p>\n

And you can read “The Twain in Camelot” and other Merlin<\/i> drabbles that I’ve written here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I quite enjoy writing drabbles, short stories of exactly 100 words, and a month ago I walked through my creative process in writing a Merlin drabble. This morning, for no particular reason except that I had a computer microphone handy, I decided to do an audio recording of a different Merlin drabble. It’s a storyContinue reading “On Recording a Drabble Podfic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[705,297,585,298,447,27],"class_list":["post-5386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-camelot","tag-fafhrd","tag-fritz-leiber","tag-gray-mouser","tag-lankhmar","tag-merlin","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}