Today I wrote my first podcast script.<\/p>\n
I mentioned about two months ago<\/a> that I was considering starting a podcast when I relaunch my website in the coming months.<\/p>\n (By the way, there’s nothing wrong<\/i> with my website that requires a relaunch, except that I have to move it to another server, so why not spiff it up and give it a new look?)<\/p>\n Since I’m laid up this weekend with a nasty, unproductive, and very painful cough, accompanied by a drop in my vocal register that makes me sound a bit like Jon Pertwee, I fired up Microsoft Word this afternoon and started writing up the script for the first episode of the podcast.<\/p>\n Some of it I could write from memory. Some of it needed Wikipedia’s help to get the details right. And some of it cribbed from a post here on the blog (though I won’t say which one). With a break for dinner, in two hours I hammered out a first draft of four pages and a little shy of 1,000 words. I wrote it in screenplay format because it was convenient.<\/p>\n I’ll look at it again either tomorrow or Tuesday. There’s something very obvious for this introductory episode that I’ve just realized I missed almost entirely, and the episode’s closing needs to better tie into its opening. It’s not perfect, it’s not right, but it’s there<\/i>. Because it’s there it can be edited and rewritten; no writer can edit words that don’t exist. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n I’m not sure when I’ll record it, but probably not until I have five scripts in the can. My intention is for this to be a weekly podcast of roughly ten minutes’ duration, so I’d like to work ahead so that I have that material there. :h2g2:<\/p>\n Still to come, I must design a logo. I have some ideas for what I want, but they’re still a little vague and amorphous.<\/p>\n As for what the podcast is<\/i>, well, I’m going to keep that one close to my vest for the time being. It’s something a little unusual and, maybe, a little unexpected. It’s also something that interests me — and may well interest others. I will state that it’s not<\/i> fannish, nor is it or political.<\/p>\n I think it will be fun. And really, that<\/i>‘s what matters. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I wrote my first podcast script. I mentioned about two months ago that I was considering starting a podcast when I relaunch my website in the coming months. (By the way, there’s nothing wrong with my website that requires a relaunch, except that I have to move it to another server, so why notContinue reading “On Writing a Podcast Script”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4109,4102],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-podcast","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296","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=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}