WHY DOES FRIDAY SEEM LIKE MONDAY?

After a brief email conversation with a certain podiobook author I 
admire (this, in direct response to my queries about the publishing and 
marketing of my own audio fiction efforts), I was advised as an early 
step to join the Podiobooks.com community, and learn all I can from the 
accumulated experience there.  Now, I'm not a joiner by nature.  Like a 
lot of writers, I guess, I'm more comfortable producing words, than I am 
at the exchange of them.  But that's just fear a-whispering, and I don't 
have a clue as to why it still chases me, even though I'm all these 
years removed from my youthful phobias.

Anyway, since I have an audio fiction title of my own to release soon, 
I, naturally, sought out venues and interested parties.  It's not been 
an easy search.  It soon became apparent that the idea of an hour-long 
one-shot audio drama is something of a stranger in the crowd.  There are 
very few places that seem even interested.  People like their series, 
and have only so many hours in the day for things that fall outside of 
an acknowledged area of interest or affection.  I can understand that -- 
really I can, though, personally, I'm much less embracing of the 
serialized fiction format, simply because there are so many OTHER items 
of media vying for my attention that often I'm reluctant to get swept up 
in that sort of commitment.  Again, if my circumstances were different, 
I'd certainly think differently, but as it stands, I'm not a prime audio 
fiction consumer.  Funny that, since I'm such a fan of both OTR and 
modern radio drama.

You know where it stems from, this reluctance of mine?  I'm just 
realizing it now...it's the nature of the RSS feed.  I just can't abide 
the idea of having podiobooks, or pod, ogg, speex, and/or other types of 
'casts being automatically fetched for me.  I'd get buried almost 
immediately, because my listening habits are of the feast-or-famine 
sort.  Now, I know that a decent podcatcher could just get the notices 
of the new content, and then wait for my say-so on the fetching of it 
(hello gPodder), and really this is the direction I almost certainly 
will have to go in soon or later, but, being the creature of bad habit 
that I am, this is a slow change to warm up to.  Like a lot of folks, my 
consumption is a direct reflection of my listening patterns.  And since 
I don't seem to have any, I'm looking at a slow trickle instead of a 
fire hose.  That's okay anyway: I'm not dying of thirst.  Not yet.  
Though I think that will change.  I feel it in my bones.


January 21, 2011
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