Writing, Speech, and Revision
Reading these stories aloud has lead me to make some changes– sometimes improvised on the spot, sometimes calculated– to increase the comic effect. I’m sure I should have tried this before, but I actually I thought I did… Only, when reading to myself only, and not for others (like recording for podcast), I didn’t make the effort to entertain with my voice’s tone, timing, and stress. I didn’t plumb the eloqutionary quadrants for insight into deeper nonsense. And I think that has opened up some opportunistic moments.
