![]() ![]() Recently, I have pulled back a lot from responding in this group because it looks like so many people don’t do any research before dashing off their basic question and only want to be validated in their approach. I’ve been a member the Facebook Indie (ACX And Others) Audiobook Narrators and Producers group for almost 8 years. I can’t express how incredibly frustrating and maddening it is to spend my valuable time offering guidance learned through years of expensive training classes and hands-on practice only to have a newcomer dismiss my hard-won knowledge with the comment “in my experience” and/or an argumentative reply. ![]() Regardless of the site/group and discussion, established narrators have the same goal - maintain and even improve the quality of the art form. Therefore, narrators participating in online forums need to be careful about the advice they give and take. While mistakes in audiobook narration don’t carry such severe consequences, they do have repercussions. People today have heard about the gold rush in audiobooks, leading many to decide to become a narrator. ![]() Those who did live endured unimaginable and grisly hardships in camp. None of the Donner party had traveled the route before, either, so they had no experience or knowledge to measure the shortcut against.Īs a direct result of taking the disastrous advice about the shortcut, most of the party didn’t live to tell the tale. Rather than following the rutted road of the hundreds of settlers before them, they took an unproven shortcut given by a person who had not actually made the trip he proposed and therefore had no business in directing others to go that way. In the 1840s, this group of around 90 people had heard about the wonders of California and decided to travel west to seek their fortune. You don’t have to be a student of American history to know about the Donner party. ![]()
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