Podcasting

[louiselux]

The main reason for this is so I could keep saying dragonwagon. Say it. It's a fine word. In fact it's a name. But! There is also my deep thoughts on Maid Hakkai, Edwardian vampires and my Sweet Charity story (which has a working title of Monsters).

About 12 minutes long: Vampires and monsters - mp3, 5.9 mb

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[kanzenhanzai.livejournal.com]

Ooh, why am I still at work? *bookmarks*

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Yay, icon! Hakkai looks so 'so, why have I got this rake when I can kill you with my brain?'

[avierra.livejournal.com]

These sound awesome, I can't wait to read them :)

This was a very cool use of a podcast, btw. It was fun to hear you talk about the stories.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it was fun! It's somehow easier to talk about stories that write about them.

[mendax.livejournal.com]

Hooray podcasts! It's so neat to hear you talk about your stories. I'm looking forward to reading them. :-)

As for badlands in the Southwest, Utah has the spectacular area that's now Arches National Park (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Arches+National+Park&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi) (though it wouldn't have been a National Park yet). There are quite a few others around as well — the Southwest has plenty of unbelievably gorgeous, unlivable places.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Arches! It really does have arches, wow. They are magnificent. Thanks for that.

I'm glad you enjoyed my mini podcast!

[baka-gaijin.livejournal.com]

Maid Hakkai

~ is giddy at the thought ~

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Lol! O, Maid Hakkai.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

What a fun podcast...there was much, much giggling here over the "dragonwagon" bits, and eeee, your upcoming fics? Vampire!Hakkai? Kelpie!Gojyo? Maid!Hakkai? I can hardly wait!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have stopped giggling at dragonwagon yet. It is truly a fine name.

[indelicateink]

Yay! I love it when you podcast. :D

1903 Gojyo(Thomas) in a train! Sexxxxy. And *g*, so much love for Zoltan! :D lol, I really cannot wait to read this fabulous story, it sounds so exciting.

And eeeee!, Monsters sounds marvelous! Aw, kelpie!Gojyo. ;___; With scientist-witch!Nii and crazy!Hakkai! This sounds so incredibly awesome. (I had never heard of kelpies before! The closest creature I'd heard of is perhaps a selkie. I love learning about mythological creatures that are new to me.)

Hee! I love that maid!Hakkai will be equally mind-blowing in a suit, that's a fantastic twist. XD

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Yay I'm especially glad that you enjoyed the random ramblings! Listening back it all sounded poured straight out of my brain, shaken not stirred, so I'm glad it made some sort of sense. I love all of these stories. I wrote more of the Monsters today... it's reaching some sort of climax, it's exciting!!

[indelicateink]

Yay!! *bounces with excitement* So thrilled about Monsters' progress! I'll be grinning at work all day today. XD

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Eee, podcast! I loved it, thank you for sharing. I am so excited about these new stories, you don't even know. :D

By the by, how do you do your podcasts? I am tempted to try doing one myself, but I am dumb with technology sometimes and afraid it will be too complicated.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Oooh, you SHOULD DO ONE. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

The programme I use is Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

It's free and it lets you export files as mp3s. To export as mp3s you need to install a plugin called Lame: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3

The site has instructions on how to do it all though.

[chomiji]

I finally listened to this after downloading it last week. It was so much fun - your delivery made it sound like you were sharing marvellous, tasty secrets with us.

(Somehow when you spoke of Thomas traveling to the Badlands in America and found other vampires, I found myself thinking "And Kou and his folks are those vampires ... they're Native American vampires." But I think that's just because of Kougaiji's lovely coppery complexion.)

And kelpie!Gojyo! > love < (Have you read R.A. MacAvoy's The Grey Horse?)

We actually had a book by Ms. Dragonwagon when my daughter was small: Half a Moon and One Whole Star. It was a very soothing, poetic bedtime book about all the intresting but unthreatening things that can happen at night, anything from small animals' coming out to rummage around to a jazz musican's late homecoming after working a club.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

"And Kou and his folks are those vampires ... they're Native American vampires."

That is such a cool idea, thank you. *ponders*

I haven't read The Grey Horse, but would like to. Most of my reading on kelpies so far has been in the form of website entries and translations of random folk tales. I love how the idea of a water sprites is in so many cultures, possibly because of the importance of water? And water is quite a mysterious magical thing all by itself.

Ms Dragonwagon's books sounds delightful, actually. I'm glad!

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Ms Dragonwagon's blog (http://crescentdragonwagon.typepad.com/nothing_is_wasted_crescen/) Hee!