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A.E. Williams's avatar

Thanks for sharing this experience! I've always wanted to hear about the author's experience in reading their own book for the audiobook. Can't wait to read the book and perhaps listen to the audiobook as well. Thanks for sharing!

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frosti austi's avatar

Your writing style belies your age!

I have always intended to auto-narrate my book. When I've read it aloud to myself, there's a few sentences I always switch the word order within (e.g. "there's a few sentences I always switch the word order within" vs "there's always a few sentences I switch the word order around"). I just notice that orate ever so slightly than what I see on the paper. Did you do a verbatim narration of your book? Also, when you ever so slightly stumbled into words, did Cat stop you right then and there? Or did you finish the paragraph/page at the allotted time, review the audio, and then go "that wasn't so bad - we can continue recording"?

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