Hi there. Just to let you know I'm not dead, but I have been on holiday, and last week I started a new job (the paid type, as opposed to a writing / podcasting job). Anyway, I have been working on the text of Episode 25 and it's almost done. I just need to do one more run through and then I'll record it. It's going to be a big one, 12 pages of A4 means it'll be an hour long. Which means it'll take time to record and edit. However, it's a great episode. My wife thinks its one of the best yet, so please bear with me, it's coming, and it'll be worth the wait. When the image below takes colour, the episode will be live. I expect it will be Thursday or Friday.

Currently recording Episode 23 and making slow progress. Why? Why when the text has been written and re-written till it reads perfectly, should it be proving problematical? Because nothing but nothing throws up sentences that don't work like reading them aloud. This goes especially for dialogue. So far I've recorded over an hour of audio, yet only covered two of 16 pages. That's because as I read, I hit things I don't like, and I re-write them, or just look away from the text and say whatever comes to mind naturally (again, especially with dialogue).

I find that the more crafted a piece of dialogue is, the less it sounds like something someone would really say. So I'm going to now go and cut about 75% of the audio I've just recorded, and save the remainder, knowing that that remainder, however small, will at least (I hope) be good stuff.

Then I'll record the other 14 pages :-)

Here's a portrait of the lad himself, sent to me by The Glove.

Lovely job