Within the Wires by Night Vale Presents. Can’t get enough. Exactly what I’ve been searching for: folks making interesting, high-quality, single-narrator, naturally-performed audio stories. Listened on the dog walk. Listened whilst doing chores. Would be listening right now if I wasn’t typing. What an exceptional thing they’ve made, that tiny team.
Riffing on a sad story because I like sad stories. There have been numerous times (probably too many) where I’ve searched for something close to “stories that make you cry” or “podcasts that make you cry.” Sometimes you just need this weird permission or vehicle to take you there. I think that can be a gift, albeit a sort of strange one.
Anyway, it’s something like “loved one passes unexpectedly, protagonist calls to listen to voicemail message, and then… keeps going.” They’d keep calling, and talking, and working through things in voicemail messages that will never be heard—or at least, that’s what they think. In the end, the number is reassigned. Loss. Grief. Closure (eventually).
I’ll aim for an episode per month maybe? Twelve episodes in total? For now though, I just need to think about the pilot. I need to do some writing, record some foley, and just start sketching with sound. I need to play it for people and see what they think (but I’ll make what I want to make). I think I can make this. I’m feeling good about it. Almost confident.
Good run this morning. Only just getting started, but it’s already getting easier. Covered more miles, and in less time. Someone once said something like “it doesn’t get easier, you just go faster” and it’s so true. We keep pushing ourselves. Striving. I like people who always strive. After all, isn’t that what it means to be alive? I think so, anyway.