I Listen Like a Producer and Write Like a Narrator
For the last decade, I have been listening, closely, to how narrative audio storytelling has shaped our taste, our culture, our norms and our business practices.
After sitting on the idea for years, I finally launched a newsletter, to look V-E-R-Y C-L-O-S-E-L-Y at this audio space. It’s called Bingeworthy, and it lives on Substack.
✅ Do you have a show in development?
✅ Do you want me to listen to some early episodes and provide feedback?
✅ Are you at a rough cut, or a fine-cut stage, and wondering which direction to go in?
My taste has a proven track record, and because I’m also a producer, I understand how to give feedback to someone who works in this industry.
Maybe you’re looking for help with how to write narration?
I approach narration writing with a framework I call
Find Your Fish
Why?
When I was a kid, learning to swim in the cold lake water of Northern Ontario, I was terrified of fish.
To be clear, the fish that live in a small spring-fed lake are nothing to be afraid of.
But I was terrified….which was illogical to me.
So I did what any brave 11-year-old would do, and I found a pear of goggles, and I would swim around looking for fish.
When I saw them, I would start to hyperventilate, which forced me to come up to the surface, gasping for air, as I furiously did the whip kick.
Slowly, with time, I learned that fish are my friends.
Fish aren’t scary. They are kind of lovely.
Following stories is a bit like this for me.
It involves diving into a foreign body of water, swimming around feeling scared, and searching for fish.