The Wordsmith's Forge

For those of you into podcasts, calzephyr is linking some. 

bluedreaming has posted several "no makeup" podfics as part of Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, if anyone is into audio.  (See voiceteam for the "no makeup" challenge.)  I think it's useful to post things that are incomplete or imperfect, because so much online is buffed to the point of intimidating people.

This post has excellent instructions with examples for different editing actions used to fit a song to a video. 

Someone made a podfic of my LIFC poem "The Life of the Dead."  :D 

EDIT 5/16/21 -- There is now another podfic of "Cafuné."

EDIT 5/16/21 -- Here is a new podfic for "The Truth Is."

For my friends who like to consume audio, peasina is a podficcer who records fanfic and British comedy, also currently looking for new things to record. 

Here's a PDF of a favorite book, Go the Fuck to Sleep.

callibr8 added the YouTube links for this book being read by different famous
people:

Samuel L. Jackson
Jennifer Garner
Morgan Freeman
Levar Burton
Noni Hazlehurst

Purrli is a purr generator where you can set the features of a virtual cat purring.  :D 

I am sure that Kraken made something like this in response to the Purr Little Things charity.  Which they probably also support, but you can't keep geeks from trying to synthesize things they like.

Does anyone know how to put sound files online or a have a place to do so?  daisiesrockalot has recorded poems from the series Diminished Expectations and we would like to share these. 

EDIT 3/25/18: A couple folks have suggested Sound Cloud.  Does anyone use that service who would be able to post some poem files?

Someone recently mentioned wanting to get a friend to read my recent "how to" posts aloud.  I don't do podcasting, but I know that I have a handful of vision-impaired folks in my audience who rely on audio.  Would anyone like to read aloud my stuff like Emotional First Aid posts, and maybe ad lib descriptions of any images that aren't essentially linked to a description already? If you can post something like that in a publicly accessible place that I could link to, I'd be happy to swap you poetry for your time.  Look over the unpublished stuff and let me know what appeals -- I can estimate how long it took me to write, and swap time for time, or we can compare length, etc.

 For those of you eagerly awaiting the podfic of my story "Love Is for Children" as read by RyukoAkari, Chapter 2 is now up.