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Ask Me Anything meme!

I do not actually remember the wording because it's been a while since this one last went around LJ, but basically, if there is anything you are curious to know about me because you are new around here/are old around here but feel like you should already have known it/have never gotten around to asking despite the fact that you know multitudinous other details of my life like what I eat for breakfast every morning, today is a day to ask it. (It does not have to be RL stuff necessarily! Fannish questions are fun too.)

I will not be offended by anything you ask but I fully retain the right to not answer questions, because sometimes I do like being a woman of mystery. Alternately, I may screen answers if for whatever reason I do not feel comfortable sharing them with the-internet-at-large.



For the record I'm going to do a little housekeeping on LJ. If I have you friended on LJ and DW and you crosspost your entries, I shall be bumping you off the LJ friendslist. It'll mean I'm more faithful to reading my circle on DW, and that I don't read everything twice. Should I not have you friended on DW and you're certain I should, please let me know your DW handle. ;)

Feedback

The podfic thing is interesting.

I record podfic without any pressure to perform, because I know that I can read with expression, because I studied speech and drama for years and got grade 6 in something, in there, but mostly because I don't get any feedback. I don't record podfic for the acclaim or for the feedback, I record podfic to make the writer happy and to make me happy, and in that sense it's kind of a purer artform, for me, than the writing thing is. (I'm working on writing when it isn't for an audience, I'm working on writing and being able to go to bed before I've got any feedback - it's a work in progress.) While I'm participating in a rec fest I'm not sure I'm keen on my podfics being more readily fed back on, because to be honest feedback makes me more nervous than it doesn't, and I'm not sure I want to have something to live up to. That said, I do think my podfic could improve drastically. One of my goals this year is to learn to work audacity better, because I'd like to record longer fic and I don't yet know how to do that without doing it in one session. (Yes, the 2-3 hour fics I've done so far have been done in one session; please remember those are the edited, cut down versions...) But as well as working audacity better, I also need to know how I'm doing, what I could do better on, and that's not going to happen without feedback... but it won't necessarily happen with feedback, either. The Cult of Nice is wonderful and affirming and unhelpful, and I'm grateful for it and rail against it in one motion. Mostly I want to deserve the praise I'm given.

Like I say, I'm not finished yet. I have progress to make, and expectations is a serious area that needs work.