Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.
Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.
Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.
…But now that we’ve seen this article we’re ready to jump in and get hooked!
With nearly 22,000 works on Archive of Our Own alone, podfic isn’t exactly niche. Nor is it new. Fans were recording audiozines, aka fanfiction on tapedecks, in the 1970s and ’80s, with Doctor Who and Star Trek stories being the most popular. But audio fanfiction didn’t really make it “mainstream” until 2004 with sbp aloud, the Livejournal project to record an audiobook version of a popular Harry Potter fanfiction, “The Shoebox Project.” Soon enough after that, podficcing communities started to pop up all over Livejournal and Dreamwidth. With the creation of the Audiofic Archive, which sadly had a major server corruption and lost over 25,000 podfics in 2016, podficcers were slowly building a community, one that would spread to Tumblr, Twitter, and Archive of Our Own over the years.
That said, podficcing is still on the outskirts of general fandom discourse. With the rise of podcasting, it’s come up more often than it did two decades ago, yes, but it’s still an art form and a way of experiencing fanfiction that more people simply need to know about.
Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.