I didn't want to steal a vid from Day without credit, and so this appears in the Collection post below. However, this lesson is extremely useful for those of us still learning our way - and hoping, someday, to have readings of our own. This deserved a *post* of its own.
So l...i...s...t...e...n...
Good material, well taught.
Part 2:
Be audible. Do it from your diaphragm (Steve Martin jokes may be leaping to mind - and that is okay ...).
Read slowly - pacing is important in the writing; why wouldn't your rhythm as a reader matter?
Choose your passage carefully - watch the number of characters in a scene; is it self-contained? (dramatic content/is your stopping point a cliffhanger?); listen to the language (onomatopoeia); control your own interpretation (read the meanings) ...
One of her pieces of advice is to read from the POV of your own gender ... a trick I won't be able to accomplish with Clovis, written as it is in first person from his POV ... But even so, it can be done. I suspect my abilities do run so far; I've read this MSS so many times, out loud, just in its very writing.
The voice is a muscle. She comments near the beginning of video #2 on resonating and what a sinus infection can do to you. True too of bronchial issues: this past couple of weeks? I could not have used mine properly!
Pitch, placement, pacing, accent, attitude. (And not all attitude is 'tude, yo.)
GKDTBP.
Also, I agree with Day. The attitude section is great.
No comments:
Post a Comment