{"id":557,"date":"2014-01-23T13:08:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T17:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2019-08-29T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:56:13","slug":"the-hardest-part-of-podcasting-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/23\/the-hardest-part-of-podcasting-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hardest Part of Podcasting (so far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/images\/201401\/Podcaster.jpg\" alt=\"Podcaster..(not actually me ;) )\" title=\"Podcaster...(not actually me ;) )\" style=\"float:left; margin: .5em;\">The most difficult thing that I&#8217;ve found while doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/podcast\">my podcast<\/a> is the whole &#8220;talking to no one&#8221; part.  I already know that I talk very quickly, especially when I&#8217;m excited.  I also now know from editing my podcasts that I tend to be sloppy in my pronunciation of a LOT of words.  I&#8217;ve definitely been more focused on that.<\/p>\n<p>What is getting me is being able to &#8220;fake&#8221; the vocal dynamics that happen as you are interacting with another human.  Normally, you&#8217;d feed off their interactions and subtle non-verbal cues, but instead I feel like I&#8217;m an actor reciting an ad-hoc soliloquy and currently I&#8217;m just not that talented.  I&#8217;m balancing that fine line between speaking at a good pace, speaking clearly and enunciating, and speaking with vocal dynamics that don&#8217;t sound fake and forced.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to think of some good ways to &#8220;fake&#8221; this.  One idea is maybe put a mirror in front of me and talk to the &#8220;other person&#8221; who is there.  Another idea is to make my son or my wife sit there near by and I&#8217;ll talk to them.  I do plan on having some interview subjects on soon, so those kinds of episodes won&#8217;t be an issue.  I&#8217;m just more concerned and focused about my &#8220;verbal essay&#8221; (rant) style episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any good practical tips that they&#8217;ve used when &#8220;performing for no one&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most difficult thing that I&#8217;ve found while doing my podcast is the whole &#8220;talking to no one&#8221; part. I already know that I talk very quickly, especially when I&#8217;m excited. I also now know &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peteonsoftware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}