First day with the new gear. There’s a scratchy-scratchy sound that I believe is my collar rubbing against the mic. I’m not sure if/how I can fix that.
Oh, and I uploaded a corrected file for yesterday’s episode as well.
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The last few minutes of the audio is somewhat garbled and not easy to understand some of what you are saying. That together with the mike scratching your collar makes me wish for the gold old days, when your previous system worked.
I’m a new (at age 76) fiction writer. A lifelong reader of science fiction, with a 50 year history of acting, directing, playwrighting and production as avocation and hobby, I now turn to fiction writing. Creating a novel is on my bucket list. I’d like to take part in discussion groups and a serious critique group to improve my fiction writing. I love your work, both the Fairpoint novels and the Ish Wang novels. I enjoyed the podcasts of them, and want to do that for my own work. Could you point me in a direction for both discussion groups and critique? I’d really appreciate it. I live in Bangor Maine. I’ve written a short story and it’s published through Smashwords and is on ibooks. I know it’s amateurish and could use a good, honest appraisal. It’s called “Spliced.”