I began my journey in POD9. At first, I thought this was an extension of “60 Seconds a Day,” a challenge to show up. Then I realized I was on a journey.
I’ve reached the mid-point of my journey on Forward Link, Day 50. A good milestone to mark as I move over to the Podcaster Community.
I decided to move my recordings over in their entirety. Then I will also try to move over comments. To see where I started so I can better see where I am.
My recordings are part of personal discovery, learning how to use my voice, and learning how to use podcasting technologies.
I realized this morning I am not on a 100-Day Challenge, a 100-Day Journey. Previous work came to mind. It is somehow intertwined with creating my podcast.
I pondered all night, the quote from Alice in Wonderland. It is a quote I have often used. For some reason, it did not seem right.
This was a single-take recording. The words just seemed to flow out. There were a lot of ambient sounds. The city was very active today. Working with environmental sounds, didn’t quite stick to my 5-minute rule.
I was inspired by a quote from Margaret Wheatley - “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences and failing to achieve anything useful. It’s amazing to me how much we do, but how little time we spend reflecting on what we just did.”
I’m always hesitant to read aloud what I’m reading. Never sounds right in my head.
Today was a planned disruptive day. An opportunity to practice patient waiting. Knowing it would be an unfocused day and planning for it, didn’t help. I wanted to re-record. Decided to leave as is. Was within range, but outside of my 5-minute editing limit.
7 days in, 93 to go! I decided to summarize what I’ve learned every 7 days. I’ve made headway in creating space for what’s to come with creating a podcast. The process is ongoing. Like any process, a structure is needed. The structure for asking questions to reveal and honor my guest’s stories. The next seven days…
As I was pulling together all the questions I’ve been playing around with. I realized there was no objective for these strategies to hang on to.
It’s like [forgive this old analogy] hanging clothes outside on a line to dry with no clothespins to hold them in place. The first big wind the clothes blow away.
Dots connecting this morning! Moved my 100-Day journey episodes to Otter. Also moving interview and interview practice questions to Otter. Wish I had thought to turn voice memos on earlier. What have I been asking and what received a good response?
Bonus, I will be previewing my remaining practice interviews. Prep for editing!
A little overwhelmed today as I look across all the tasks needing to be accomplished. Reflected back on learnings from my Write Now group. We shared moving forward with small steps.
Making headway again! As I begin gathering questions from interviews, I think I will run one or two through Discript to learn how it works.
Voice-wise, my thoughts are coming together more quickly. I could probably write my thoughts down ahead of time. But, it feels good to practice thinking on my feet.
Keeping to a 5-minute edit is helping me better select what needs to be edited, and what’s good as is. Editing is becoming much quicker maybe time to add a new tool? Maybe better to have more proficiency before jumping into the next “shiny object”
Working to keep my taskmaster at bay as I play with tools.
Audacity has a new upgrade 3.1. The time shift button is no longer available. You can now create modules within the audio tracks. Easier to move modules around and edit. I added a module to the end of today’s recording.
A good day for reflection. Exploring my two paths for small sets. One path leads to fulfillment, fun. The other resistance, not so much fun.
In this recording instead of pausing to gather my thoughts, I created modules using the new Audacity time-shift function. Created recorded small steps
An amazing exercise. The editing took a little longer, I created too many modules. Through this process, I see how interviews can be separated into modules. Interview modules could be rearranged (time-shift) or edited into mini-conversations. More practice is needed
My second seven days are now complete. What have I learned about small steps and the questions I want to ask?
This time I worked with only one module in Audacity. It was easier to stop and create modules as in day 015. Just don’t need to do as many.
I played around with editing words. Yes, it was a rabbit hole. Interesting to zoom in and out and see which words were easy to edit and which ones were not. Note to self, pay attention to annunciation. Much easier to not edit.
