I’m currently listening to an audiobook narrated by the author. To be honest, I’m not all that impressed with this one. It took me a few minutes to decide if it was the writing or the narration that I didn’t like. This particular book was obviously written by and for women, so I’m clearly not the target audience. The author reads very fast and doesn’t use inflection in places that clearly need it. My first thought was: this was a great example of why an author should leave the narration to others.

My second thought was: hell, I can do better than that! The funny thing is that these are the same thoughts that led me to the keyboard to write my own stories. I’ve been building a backlog of drabbles over the years, both published and unpublished, with the intention of publishing my own drabble anthology at some point in the future. Now I’m considering narrating that collection myself.

When I was a teenager, my grandmother cleaned the local radio station every week. Every so often, the DJs would invite her to say something on the air. It was always a treat to hear her voice on the radio while I was riding the bus to school. I have a recording of her wishing my cousin happy birthday on cassette. She passed away thirty-one years ago. It is even sweeter to hear her voice now.

My grandmother would often correct my grammar and pronunciation and then tell me that if I was ever going to work with the radio that I’d have to speak properly. Several people over the years have commented on my voice and told me that it would make for great narration. (Maybe they used different words, but that’s what I heard.) So, yeah, narrating my drabble anthology is now in my plans.

I read several of my drabbles on TikTok, Reels, and YouTube. They never got many views or likes, so I may purge them from social media soon. I might repost them once I have recorded them with a proper mic. I’ll put links to my social media below in case you want to check them out before the purge. I’ll leave them up for another week or two.

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