Indie AF

Welcome to EPISODE 303 of this joyous chatty pod on all aspects of audio drama creation!

This week - the wonderful and riDICulously talented LINDSAY SHARMAN

&

LAURENCE OWEN

Talk all things LONG CAT PRODUCTIONS with emphasis on exploring GHOSTED! Their true moody, atmospheric horror podcast, how MAGENTA & BERNARD came about, and why they are so fun as comedy inspiration, and being a part of the brilliant FABLE AND FOLLY NETWORK.

They're honestly legends of the audio drama space and I FOR ONE CANNOT WAIT to see / hear / play / experience what they come up with next!

Please do hire Laurence for all your music and sound design character grooviness needs and pay Lindsay handsomely to write and star in more amazing groovy things!

Also not mentioned here is the fact that they are making a MOCKERY MANOR GAME! YES! It had a kickstarter - find more details to back it here!

Our guest show today on the DISCOVERABILITY part of the pod is the wonderous show fronted by SIR ROBERT OF CRIGHTON - Beyond Shakespeare - which you can find...here!

BeyondShakespeare.org

The trailer at the end of the show is for TEN APOCALYPSES from CITEOF PODS - I met and enjoyed the fine company of Sean - a creator of this super show, on the inaugural INCOGNITO 42 WRITER RETREAT that me and Shannon created for last year and are currently planning the next! Ping me on [email protected] to be first to know when and where to be!

Please do hunt it down on the link above and enjoy a listen...

Please also feel free to support Laurence and Lindsay on their KO-FI ACCOUNT -linked below

Ah

Gwan!

Thank you so so much for listening = please do share it to your socials to help inspire other creatives!

HAPPYYY CREATING YA LEDGE

NOW, hopefully inspired by Lindsay and Laurence today, please do...

GO

MAKE

THE THING!

Sarah x

Links to LINDSAY & LAURENCE’S WORKS & BEYOND

KO-FI.COM_LONGCATMEDIA - Support them!

UVI WALKER - recommended by Laurence

Laurence’s telephone mic link! Doit!

Have a listen to GEEZER BIRD - Sarah Produced this for WIRELESS THEATRE and used Laurence’s phone mics for audio recording fun!

Check out this website for links to:>>>

Ballad of Anne and Mary - Piratical musical!

Mockery Manor - Horror Comedy

Magenta Presents - Horror Anthology inc GHOSTED

Sonos Mystica

WHAM - We Have A Movie!

And more

Links to Sarah’s socials

⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠

⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠

⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠

⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠

⁠WIRELESS THEATRE

‘We just follow our curiosity’ - Lindsay Sharman

Oh yeah, and do watch Ghost Shark, it’s truly ridiculous funnnn!

The very brilliant JEN & CHRIS - Team Victoriocity - are here to talk making one of the very best comedies EVER EVER MADE - Honestly - dive in and you will fund the best EXACT amount of joy needed to escape the realities of this crazy life we lead. It's witty, clever and character fuelled and has a cracking cast and superb quality production values - and I feel it all starts with amazing writing!

Jen and Chris Sugden are hugely talented writers, performers and general al round awesome folks, and herein describe and explore aspects of making their comedy Victoriocity.

We explore

• Top tips - writing processes for audio drama
• Top tips - Creating a novel
• Collaboration
• Why audio is a superb storytelling medium
• Why a narrator?
• Why do you have to be ruthless?
• Importance of improvisation for developing characters
• Stakes and arcs
• Brilliant cast and crew members

Thanks to the truly wonderful Chris and Jen for sharing their wonderful experience and tips for you to level up your creative skills too!

Thanks for listening and PLEASE DO SHARE, RATE AND REVIEW THIS NEW SEASON -would be super to have some fun words of wisdom to share.

Sarah🌞

Links to their works

Victoriocity website

Buy the book - HIGH VAULTAGE - here!

Jen Blue Sky

Chris Blue Sky

Any sound effects were taken from the wonderful FREESOUND.ORG

Our DISCOVERABILITY 5 MINS was with the super amazing CRYSTAL STORM of talesoftheforgotten.com

And our trailer at the end was for CIRCE podcast - Season 2 coming soon!

Links to Sarah’s socials

⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠

⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠

⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠

⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠

⁠WIRELESS THEATRE

HELLO #AudioFiction lovin' WORLD!

Ever wanted to know what it takes to be the BEST GAMES MASTER on those Indie AF Actual Play podcasts?

Well listen up dooo cos MADDY SEARLE has got some info for you🎉

Truly grateful to Maddy for coming on and talking career development in AUDIO FICTION climes, going from MA at Goldsmiths to Indie Producer with Snazzy Tapir to Producer writer VA and show runner at one of the TOP AUDIO FICTION NETWORKS - Rusty Quill... We also talk the importance prioritising your good health, by learning to be kinder to yourself (as a freelance creative) working across timezones, and prioritising compartmentalising time so you do not burn out AND MORE!

Please support this show by sharing it on your own social media, or if you feel so inclined, it would make my day to have a review from you!

TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE TO THE FIRST EVER AUDIO DRAMA HUB PODFEST IN NOVEMBER 19/20 - TIX HERE

THANK YOU TO MY BRILLIANT PATREONS - you'll be receiving the Newt Shottlekotte, Travis and Kaitlin of Fool and Scholar and Danilo Battistini INDIE AF eps for an early listen a month before everyone else sometime this week! WOOHOO FOR PERKS RIGHT? Also I will be attempting some more audio drama with my kids horror stories for Bogeys and Ghoulies this month - HAPPY PRE-HALLOWEEN HYPE OF THOSE HORROR SHOWS PEOPLE! 👻🎃🧛‍🧛🏼‍🧟‍🧟

Thank you SO MUCH for listening YALEGENDS

HAPPY

MAKING

THE

THING

Sarahx

LINKS TO MADDY'S GROOVINESS

Maddy's Twitter

Maddy's Website

Chapter and Verse

THINGS WE MENTIONED

TIN CAN AUDIO STREAMS

Bright Sessions

Mockery Manor

BBC

Ars Paradoxica

Wolf 359

Sarah's extra links of audio joy

FICTION PODCAST WEEKLY NEWS

QUIRKYVOICES / INDIEAF NEWSLETTER

AF Meetup - October 2022

LINKS TO SARAH'S SHENANIGANS

Sarah’s Twitter

Sarah’s Linktree - email her doooo!

Quirky Voices Patreon

The BRILLIANT theme tune is made by SIR Oliver OF Morris. FIND HIM HERE DOO!

MADDY THINKS 'Absolutely anyone can be a game master... its a weird mixture of both planning and being in the moment and improvising - so, being able to have a plan, and meticulously kind of get all these details down and make a world feel real, but then be able to throw it away in an instant when a player does something extra interesting, that you want to follow that instead...'

Hellooo AND WELCOME to another groovy ep of INDIE AF with me, Sarah Golding...hullo! EXCITING NEWS - we have joined THE FAUSTIAN NONSENSE NETWORK! Woohoo! Have a browse of their cool shows, share and follow them and huzzahs for networks! Love me a new adventuuuure!

SO HUGELY EXCITED TO PRESENT THIS GROOVY CHATTARAMA TO BRILLIANT creatives from CURTCO MEDIA - Jenny Curtis and Chris Porter - who wax lyrical about all things making the very best most exciting Audio Drama possible via their experience of making SOLAR PODCAST last year. We cover the brilliance of montage storytelling, writing frameworks, gardeners and plotters, directing as the writer, and sound design challenges, show swaps and oh how awesome voice actors are! Jump in and enjoy! Loved talking to these hugely talented folks!

We are hugely grateful to you for listening - please pass it on and help share this great slew of tips and advice, and experience of working in this super amazing medium. Thank you to all of my amazing and valued PATREON supporters - I am so grateful for your continual support to help me kick out this groovy pod weekly! Such a super amazing array of folks to come - including Nick Prufer of Apollo Pods and Earth Eclipsed, Ester Ellis of Station But and the Goblet Wire and more, and Bob Raymonda, Cai Gwilym Pritchard, Adam Murciano and Antonio Cordera AND MOOORE! Jump in and join the patreons to get early access!

Sarah has some places on her voice acting beginner courses starting next week - jump on and find links to details here and register to kickstart your audio fiction funtimes this month!

Today's TRAILER is an excerpt from the super brilliant GATHER THE SUSPECTS! It's fun and funny and the team behind it are amongst the loveliest creatives ever. JUMP IN!

Hope you are having a super productive creative week and this episode inspires you to

GO MAKE

THE THING

Sarah🎉🌏🌎🌍💙

LINKS TO JEN AND CHRIS' GROOVINESS

Solar Podcast website

Solar Podcast Twitter

LINKS TO SARAH'S LINKS OF AUDIO JOYY

Sarah’s Twitter

Sarah’s Linktree - email her doooo!

Quirky Voices Patreon

HELLO!

🎉So excited to share this fabulous chattarama to the WONDERFUL Lauren Shippen on all things The Bright Sessions and beyond🎉

Lauren Shippen HAS to be near the top of EVERY audio drama creatives' list of all time amazing inspirations to inapire you to make your thing.

Find her works. Listen. GET INSPIRED DOOO!!

Bright Sessions was one of the many shows that drew me in to the medium as an avid listener and I COULD NOT WAIT til each new drop of an epiosde back in the day. SO MUCH has happened since, for Lauren and all of those listeners she inspired now making AF. Huzzahs to the shows she has created. I wanted to -for my HOW DID YOU START IT season- delve into Lauren's first experience as a successful podcaster, a storyteller, and how this brilliant MUST LISTEN first season of Bright Sessions & beyond, came about.

So please enjoy the chat herein

THANK YOU to my wonderful Patreons who make this show and alllll Quirky works possible. Feel free to join this merry band of folks who support my Quirky works here, and / or, share this episode so more folks can feel just as inspired as I do by hearing allll of my guests. I also would love your messages for the show by using the anchor app message button, or ping me a link to your top 5 audio fiction recommendations of audio joy (1-5 mins at most pls) to [email protected] - truly love me some feedback, thoughts or interactions with you on who you'd like to hear from in season 2 to this email too - ping me do!

I would truly love a review or rating on your podcatcher for this show...feel free to share it too - thank youp!

Have a groovy day

Sarah Golding

Quirky Voices

LINKS TO LAUREN'S WORKS

Lauren's Website

Links to Lauren's Podcasts

Lauren's Twitter

Atypical Artists Twitter

Natural 20 Lauren Shippen

AM ARCHIVES

MJ'S AUDIO FIC RECS OF THE DAY

WOLF 359

MISSION REJECTED

STARSHIP IRIS

MAGNUS ARCHIVES FROM RUSTY QUILL

OZ9

LINKS TO SARAH'S WORKS

Sarah’s Twitter

Quirky Voices Website

Sarah’s Linktree - email her doooo!

Quirky Voices Patreon

The BRILLIANT theme tune is made by SIR Oliver OF Morris. FIND HIM HERE DOO!

Find the transcript on the Quirky Voices Website here...