TheRedChamber
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Today saw the publication of the fourth of my audio stories written by myself and performed by HisBadGirl77. I thought I'd start a thread to let anyone else who is interested in this know my experiences. I'm posting it in the regular AH rather than the Audio Creators Booth because it's more intended for those writers who might have thought about doing audio recordings but, for whatever reason, haven't yet - or else others who have tried and it didn't work out, again for whatever reason.
It started back at the very end of April. A Voice Actor (VA) posted a message asking for scripts. I replied, she sent some links to non-erotic audio recording she'd done so I could hear her voice and I sent her a script. I wasn't particularly comfortable writing actual sex for a woman I'd never met so I came up with a sweet little piece about a Playboy model returning to her hometown and hooking back up with her high school sweetheart (Very J Gields Band type stuff). She said she liked it, didn't see the need for any changes and recorded part of it for feedback.
And then nothing...
After a couple more weeks of radio silence, I sent her a 'Hey how's it going' email and got no reply. I wasn't too surprised, shrugged, and continued on writing text stories. A couple of months later, I started to think about if I could rework the audio script into a proper story. I emailed the VA again saying that I'd still like her to record it, but if not, I was taking it back. I got a terse 'fine' reply. It sat for a while longer. Finally, I decided to post my own request for VAs on the ACB subforum and I quickly got two volunteers - HisBadGirl77 and a male VA.
HBG has a strong Southern American accent that I thought was perfect for the script I already had, so I sent it to her and very quickly she recorded it, doing what I thought was a great job for someone who hadn't posted here before. I'll talk about the art of writing an audio script in a moment (which of course I haven't even started to really learn yet, let alone master...), but the next thing I wrote for her was The Girl on the Side of His Plane. This was a full story that I've had knocking around my head for most of this year - I hadn't gotten round to writing it in prose because, even though I know what happens, the story was to be told from the perspective of a blind and disabled World War 2 veteran and I was very nervous about getting the inner voice right. Switching it just hearing the voice of his guest sidestepped this problem (it was either brilliance or cowardliness). It also helped that again HBG77s voice pretty much perfectly matched the character I already had.
There was however a problem. Unlike my first story, this one would involve sex. I'm pretty used to writing smut but to actually have someone say my filth - well as Harrison Ford is reported to have said to George Lucas - 'You can type this shit, but you can't say it'. In the initial draft I sent HBG77 there was a whole middle section missing where I just wrote 'They have sex'. We then experimented by producing two short audios.
In A Goodbye Blowjob, he is leaving to catch a flight. She really wants to give him a blowjob before he goes. That's the plot.
In A Short Hike, they are hiking in the woods. She really wants to fuck.
Experienced AHers will probably not be surprised that these stories were very well received. I wrote a 'script' for each of them in an afternoon which was only a few hundred words each and my VA performed them rather enthusiastically. With this experience under our belts, I went back and finished off my earlier magnum opus and it was published today.
Regarding the male VA - I sent him a 2k master-slave setup script. He liked it, but as part one didn't have any sex, we agreed for me to write part two as well. He recording a rough draft of about 80% of the script. It had a fair few flubs, but it was a good start and showed a lot of promise.
Then nothing...
Again, he didn't respond to a 'Hey' email and now seems to have deleted his profile of Lit, so I'm assuming that's that.
So two flakes out of three, but another way of looking at it is that I've had 4 scripts out of 6 now produced and had a lot of fun with it. I'm back advertising for more VAs again and no doubt even if I do get a response, odds are it will just result in another flake, but maybe not.
Writing audios is fun. It's a lot more like those 750-word challenges. Every word matters. My first script was 2000k words and 13 minutes long. That words-per-minute ratio drops significantly more if you're doing actual sex sounds and she's stopping to gasp between each exclamation. But it does mean that you can write a very substantial audio in an afternoon.
I've also been writing audios that address the listener directly as 'you' - so far both of my big stories involve a beautiful woman saying very nice things about 'you' and telling 'you' she wants to get it on. There's been a fair few threads about the second-person PoV recently and, while this isn't quite that, it also has a lot of the same features or feeling as 2nd person. It does become a bit artificial of course because she is doing all the talking and running making the relationship happen and only occasionally pausing to allow the listener to presumably reply with answers like 'Intercourse, my, that does indeed sound like a fine idea'.
Anyway that's my story. Tell me yours.
It started back at the very end of April. A Voice Actor (VA) posted a message asking for scripts. I replied, she sent some links to non-erotic audio recording she'd done so I could hear her voice and I sent her a script. I wasn't particularly comfortable writing actual sex for a woman I'd never met so I came up with a sweet little piece about a Playboy model returning to her hometown and hooking back up with her high school sweetheart (Very J Gields Band type stuff). She said she liked it, didn't see the need for any changes and recorded part of it for feedback.
And then nothing...
After a couple more weeks of radio silence, I sent her a 'Hey how's it going' email and got no reply. I wasn't too surprised, shrugged, and continued on writing text stories. A couple of months later, I started to think about if I could rework the audio script into a proper story. I emailed the VA again saying that I'd still like her to record it, but if not, I was taking it back. I got a terse 'fine' reply. It sat for a while longer. Finally, I decided to post my own request for VAs on the ACB subforum and I quickly got two volunteers - HisBadGirl77 and a male VA.
HBG has a strong Southern American accent that I thought was perfect for the script I already had, so I sent it to her and very quickly she recorded it, doing what I thought was a great job for someone who hadn't posted here before. I'll talk about the art of writing an audio script in a moment (which of course I haven't even started to really learn yet, let alone master...), but the next thing I wrote for her was The Girl on the Side of His Plane. This was a full story that I've had knocking around my head for most of this year - I hadn't gotten round to writing it in prose because, even though I know what happens, the story was to be told from the perspective of a blind and disabled World War 2 veteran and I was very nervous about getting the inner voice right. Switching it just hearing the voice of his guest sidestepped this problem (it was either brilliance or cowardliness). It also helped that again HBG77s voice pretty much perfectly matched the character I already had.
There was however a problem. Unlike my first story, this one would involve sex. I'm pretty used to writing smut but to actually have someone say my filth - well as Harrison Ford is reported to have said to George Lucas - 'You can type this shit, but you can't say it'. In the initial draft I sent HBG77 there was a whole middle section missing where I just wrote 'They have sex'. We then experimented by producing two short audios.
In A Goodbye Blowjob, he is leaving to catch a flight. She really wants to give him a blowjob before he goes. That's the plot.
In A Short Hike, they are hiking in the woods. She really wants to fuck.
Experienced AHers will probably not be surprised that these stories were very well received. I wrote a 'script' for each of them in an afternoon which was only a few hundred words each and my VA performed them rather enthusiastically. With this experience under our belts, I went back and finished off my earlier magnum opus and it was published today.
Regarding the male VA - I sent him a 2k master-slave setup script. He liked it, but as part one didn't have any sex, we agreed for me to write part two as well. He recording a rough draft of about 80% of the script. It had a fair few flubs, but it was a good start and showed a lot of promise.
Then nothing...
Again, he didn't respond to a 'Hey' email and now seems to have deleted his profile of Lit, so I'm assuming that's that.
So two flakes out of three, but another way of looking at it is that I've had 4 scripts out of 6 now produced and had a lot of fun with it. I'm back advertising for more VAs again and no doubt even if I do get a response, odds are it will just result in another flake, but maybe not.
Writing audios is fun. It's a lot more like those 750-word challenges. Every word matters. My first script was 2000k words and 13 minutes long. That words-per-minute ratio drops significantly more if you're doing actual sex sounds and she's stopping to gasp between each exclamation. But it does mean that you can write a very substantial audio in an afternoon.
I've also been writing audios that address the listener directly as 'you' - so far both of my big stories involve a beautiful woman saying very nice things about 'you' and telling 'you' she wants to get it on. There's been a fair few threads about the second-person PoV recently and, while this isn't quite that, it also has a lot of the same features or feeling as 2nd person. It does become a bit artificial of course because she is doing all the talking and running making the relationship happen and only occasionally pausing to allow the listener to presumably reply with answers like 'Intercourse, my, that does indeed sound like a fine idea'.
Anyway that's my story. Tell me yours.
