Brian Stansell

@erynne

Erynne,

How’s your recording coming?

Were you able to find the one that works for you?

I use the Vocal Recorder Pro to record my vocal track and then I export it (the resulting mp3 file) to my One Drive.

From there, I open the file up in Audacity and edit it.

In Audacity, I amplify the audio and cut the parts where I stumbled in…[Read more]

Hi Joshua! (@storysmith)

Rose has some great ideas!

Make sure that your title connects with your story in a meaningful way.
Look through the story and listen for a turn of phrase or a particular part that you feel might encapsulate your story’s essence.  I think the upcoming seminar on Theme might give you some good ideas.  If you can, connect y…[Read more]

Sure.

I use this one in the Apple App Store.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-record-pro/id546983235

@joelle-stone

Hi Joelle,

Here is the official site if you want to download it: “www.audacityteam.org”
Also check out their page: “www.audacityteam.org/download/online-safety-when-downloading/”
These days, one cannot be too careful.
Don’t let Goggle or any other search engine send you to anywhere else, if you decide you want to download it. Audac…[Read more]

@joelle-stone

Hi Joelle!

I use “Audacity” to mix the tracks.  I put the vocal layer on top. Then a sound effects layer, and finally the music score.

Audacity is free.  I believe I posted a link…[somewhere] looks around…lifts a book…[shrugs]….”Nope, not under there…”
Anyway, I’ll find it and send it to you.

Thank you for the input o…[Read more]

Thank you, Emily! @emily-waldorf

That is EXACTLY what I was looking for.  I realize my difficulties but sometimes get puzzled on how to break them down and simplify them.
Sometimes I read other works that seem overly poetic and pack in a bunch of layered metaphors so much that they lose the gist of the action.  Allusions, similes, and poetic v…[Read more]

@emily-waldorf

Thank you, Emily!

I think I need to chop up some of the lengthy sentences.  Some authors know intuitively where to break them up into fragments that mimic speech, but my mind keeps clawing back to grammar rules.
I noticed that intense scenes in other novels I read are often written in short punchy and clipped prose.  I do have a s…[Read more]

I haven’t posted one of these in a while so I thought I’d put one more out here, just to see what you all thought of the pacing of this…[Read more]

Hi Erynne (@erynne),

I am so glad you did this!

Here are some of the questions I answered for this scene. Since there is only this one part, some of the questions were not relevant, but I would love to hear a subsequent scene following and connected to this moment here.

1. Is there anything that stood out to you as intriguing about this…[Read more]

Hi Erynne (@erynne)

This should work, if the link above doesn’t.

Prologue-BloodType

@erynne

At your service, dear lady!
[Bows] + takes a mint-flavored antacid to relieve the bloating.  😉

@erynne

Hi Erynne,

I think you are attempting to share the file link from your local hard drive (C: Drive).
Try putting it in a Cloud-based drive like One Drive (Microsoft’s version) or a Google Drive.  This way the file is in an Internet-accessible place, that you can give permission to access.  Story Embers used to have someplace where we p…[Read more]

Hi Peter (@crazywriter)

There must be a glitch in the system. It happens from time to time.
I know the billion dollars was a poor illustration, but perhaps I can come up with a better 2nd Draft, 😉

I am really just having a hard time accepting that God created some people just so that He could consign them to everlasting torment.  It doesn’t…[Read more]

Hi Peter! (@crazywriter),

I do wholeheartedly agree that the Hebrews 11 cast are in the Heavenly country,

You did zero in on it by your statement:

But there is something special about how they came to be there. Note the following:

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of…[Read more]

Let me add a fourth question:

4. What do you believe is the unpardonable sin?