I confess, I've long wondered why that particular talent needs to be specifically referred to as throat singing. Doesn't every singer use their throat to do so (if often, admittedly, less vigorously)? Seems redundant, like tongue speech or eye vision.
Why, yes. I'm not an expert on this (the Mongolian throat singers are a running joke in the story - a choir goes to an international choir competition - one of the main characters keeps joking about being seduced by a Mongolian throat singer, and then eventually they get to hear a throat singing choir in action). However, normally when people talk about Mongolian throat singers, they actually mean overtone singing, which is (Wikipedia) 'a set of singing techniques in which the vocalist manipulates the resonances of the vocal tract to arouse the perception of additional separate notes beyond the fundamental frequency that is being produced.' It's done by shaping the mouth and pharyx to amplify particular natural harmonic resonances in the sound.I confess, I've long wondered why that particular talent needs to be specifically referred to as throat singing. Doesn't every singer use their throat to do so (if often, admittedly, less vigorously)? Seems redundant, like tongue speech or eye vision.
I loved the crack near the end about Chris and a room away.
It lasted until the 12th vote.
It's better than my 200k on 23 so
I am not much over 200K on 33 stories. It depends so much on the category. The last story in my SF&F series has yet to reach 1K, despite a reasonable rating (4.75) and comments.It's better than my 200k on 23 so
I started to try and find out once. Smashwords gives the total words of each book. But after I got through the first 50 books out of what was around 200 at the time I just gave up.
Whoever edited The Stand did a great job because all the extra material was hot garbage. But that was back when King allowed editors. Since the mid 90's it was obvious no one was touching his precious work. I gave up reading him after Insomnia, tried to read Black House that he wrote with Straub because it was a sequel to a prior collab, and King had the first part, and I put it down. Something that I noticed, and maybe its getting older, the rules and discussions on this site, but I didn't realize back in my younger days how obsessed with underage sex he was-might still be but again I haven't read anything in a long time.
I see views/votes/comments/score/favorites and reading lists. I don't see word count.
I was replying to 5Inch Heels question about their views.
The downloaded stats don't give wordcounts. I wish they did. I think MB's 16K was views not word count.
