This Podcast About Writing Short Stories Will Test Your Comprehension Skills As A Writer
A Podcast Review On The Tiny Bookcase
Listening to this podcast is quite humbling. I never thought that accents had anything on my comprehension. Netflix made me think I could understand “Can I get a boao of wooa? Or ‘its chewsday, innit? Without subtitles. Oh, the realisation that I can listen to someone talk for 50 minutes without understanding 25% of what they said is beyond humbling.
I stumbled upon this UK podcast The Tiny Bookcase and I’ve been hooked. The accent has me on a chokehold even though I can barely understand them. I now have a piece of insider knowledge as to why women always seem to cheat with a man that has an accent. Especially English or Australian. It’s mesmerising. You can listen to them talk all day without understanding a word.
Two things you can gain from this podcast;
- Touch the gate of cloud nine from the overload of English accent
- Learn to become a better writer from any given prompt
The ball is on your crot…sorry, court.
I took a liking to this podcast not just because of the accent, or the beautiful voices of Nico and Ben but because of their ability to write and read in equal capacity. Most writers are terrible readers when it comes to other people’s entertainment.
You think you qualify as a brilliant reader because you read Harry Potter in one day with your inner voice? Try reading Alice in Wonderland to a 5-year-old and see how well you do
To read for the enjoyment of others, you have to master how to act out punctuation marks. For question marks, you read with a raised pitch. For exclamation, you read with excitement, surprise, or anger. Knowing how to read punctuation marks isn’t the problem of most of us writers, the problem is that we are stiff, shy, and unrepentant introverts. It’s always a gradual process for us. The process of getting to allow others to read our work, to finally putting our work out there in the world. It’s just two processes but it takes almost half of our lives for some of us to get there. But the last process, which is reading for the joy of your listeners, ends up suffering.
Having a great turnout of sleeping and yawning audience during your book event will be about something other than the quality of your writing but the quality of your reading. Reading is as much art as writing.
The Tiny Bookcase is a short story writing and interview podcast. In each episode, the hosts (Nico and Ben) and the guest write a story using a shared prompt and then read it for their own entertainment, and hopefully for their listeners.
The listeners are hooked alright. More so from imagining how fine these gentlemen must be in real life. Intelligent? check. Accent? check check. Fine? check check check.
The podcast can be anything you want it to be. A tool for learning how to write great stories from any given prompt. A tool for learning how to be an enjoyable reader. A sleeping pill. A de-stressing mechanism. Either way, you are getting a huge deal out of this.
