Here is the second segment of the Tale of the Apprentice. It’s approximately 25 minutes long, and it covers Magister Gothren’s accusation of Tarranau. I’ll have the next piece in a few days, about the same length.
For authors who haven’t done podcasting before, I highly recommend it, because it reading the work out loud shows where various bits are fiddly or don’t quite work right. For instance, for me tonight, there was a several page section that was a detour from the main plot of the story, and given it was only a few pages into the book, that wasn’t acceptable, and it was causing the story to jar and jam and feel a little out of sorts. So, it’s been chopped and reduced to a single sentence. It’s the kind of thing that crops up when doing the podcast, and it certainly helps with the editing. I’m using the podcasting as a sort of final pass through the novel, because even though I think it’s good enough to be published and I’m trying to do that, it doesn’t stop me from coming back and working on it again and again, because I know that the first chapter is the weakest one of the seven, and so I try to clean it up and make it better whenever I can.
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