I will read your short story and provide an mp3 - I need practice!

[varlotspeaks]

I would love to get some narration experience. If you have fan fic or a short story you have written, I would love to read it for you.

If you like it, I'd like to be able to use you as a reference and your story as an example of my work. I don't seem to be getting many bites and I think it's because I don't have anything done for other people, to show off.

I do the narration for fun, I'm not looking for a career, but I'd be glad to hear criticism.

I have a male friend with a deep voice, that has been talking about doing male parts with me, which could be fun. If you'd like me to try that with him, then let me know.

I'm more than willing to do explicit material, but I will let you know if I feel too uncomfortable with the material. There is just some stuff, as I've discovered, that I can't bring myself to narrate. No one wants a narrator who can't feel your stuff at all!

Here's an audition I did, so you can get a feel for my voice: https://********/79d9f2

It was suggested that this forum was more appropriate than General, but if it's not, please let me know.

 

[GoldenCojones]

You should turn on Private Messages.
Here are instructions posted by Lynn on another thread in another forum:

* To switch on your Private Messages, go to User CP (top left of this page), click on Edit Options (in the left hand column), and then tick Enable Private Messaging in the second box down. Make sure that the box titled Receive Private Messages only from Buddies and Moderators is NOT ticked. Finally, click Save Changes at the bottom of that page.

 

[varlotspeaks]

Thank you! I had assumed it was on by default.

 

[oggbashan]

You can try any of mine. You might find my stories difficult because I write in British English and you obviously aren't British.

You could practice with some of my fifty-word stories:

https://www.literotica.com/s/fifteen-cards

I suggest this story might do for a start for something longer. You would need to vary the voice to give two speakers:

https://www.literotica.com/s/two-tarts-in-a-kitchen

Some of my stories are far too long to be recorded in a reasonable size file and could be a marathon for you. But you can use any of them as long as you credit me.


I have a couple of comments about your sample audio:

1. You read seem to read slightly too fast. I think you should slow down to take time to give more character to the reading.

2. Frequently you end sentences with a raised inflection, almost as if you were asking a question. That may be typical of your accent but for an international audience it could be disconcerting.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I understand that people very rarely vote on audio stories. Probably their fingers are tired by the end? (Or maybe it's because you have to back-click to go back to the voting button.)

To get rated, you need to post a few stories and collect a following. Once people click to your voice and the kind of stories you put up, they will start voting for you and leaving complimentary comments on your work.

That's what I hear, anyway

I have a set of reviews on my blog (see link below) talking about posting audio stories online - click on audio in the label cloud.

 

[oggbashan]

And Naoko has an audio story in her list of submissions (as Naoko) and others elsewhere.

She knows what she is blogging about.

(But the link to her blog doesn't work for me. )

 

[tomlitilia]

I wouldn't mind if you wabted to have a go with one of mine, at least if you're not planing to make money out of it. But it'd help if you gave some sort of hints about what kind of stories you want to narrate.

 

[CeasarBoobage]

Feel free to use one of mine as well. Link in sig.

With multiple voices, No Insurance or Fair Trade may work good for you.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Interesting. It's a modern voice but it still has this 'olden days radio play' kind of feel to it.

Would really work well with a noir detective story, I reckon.

 

[varlotspeaks]

I thought you guys might want to see how things are going so far:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnWCPbu-35_I4Ebx7tzxcHg

There are stories that I just know I wouldn't be good for (female POV or mostly female characters seem to work best), so I haven't done those; and some others that are very, very long. There are others that make me uncomfortable in some way, but I have been having fun reading through the suggestions and learning of kinks and fetishes I didn't even know existed

I'm doing this for fun, in between some paying jobs (yay!), and to help do a bit of self-promotion. I'm also up for some constructive criticism.

I know the O'Malley's Bar one has some audio issues. I had been playing with some new filter settings and didn't notice how weird it sounded until after I'd already edited it (I was also dumb and did it in the opposite order that I normally do it in, so it would have been a LOT of work to correct it).