Comments on: Episode 62: Lost by Sarah Ashwood

By: Herb Petro

Herb Petro — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:52:42 +0000

Good production – voices and editing both. Thanks for doing the accents; they were good enough for me. Julie was excellent.

Solid story. One of the great benefits I get from the Dunesteef is finding new authors. I was motivated to look up the author’s other work and order a copy of A Minstrel’s Musings.

By: JulieH

JulieH — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:40:27 +0000

Glad you liked it! So pleased I could do you justice!
8)
–Julie

By: SarahA

SarahA — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:50:10 +0000

Great job! I finally got to hear this production of my story, and was truly impressed. “Marlanna” was particularly good: she fit the part just perfectly. The music and sound effects really added to the overall production. Thanks so much for having me on Dunesteef.

By: Abbie

Abbie — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:16:55 +0000

You’re brave for taking on those accents. I thought you did a good job.

Romeo and Juliet: I never liked the characters – not when I was a 14 year old girl and not when I was an adult. I felt sorry for them, but I didn’t identify with them. It was always Mercutio’s death that made me cry. Clever, crazy, and hilarious and he just gets between the wrong two idiots.

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:53:18 +0000

Dude, don’t make RO8OT angry. Think of the children.

By: cdugger

cdugger — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:41:11 +0000

Being a born and raised South Texan, I couldn’t tell a Scots accent from and Aussie, for the most part.

So, I really enjoyed the story, accents and all! Good tale, good production.

Except for that damned R080T! I’m getting a little tired of his snide comments. Doesn’t he have a mute button?

By: Cambodia Carl

Cambodia Carl — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:14:16 +0000

I listened through, and after a minute or so, the accents didn’t bother me. The Scottish accent is a really hard one to master, in part because there’s not just ONE Scottish accent, and having listened to real Scots in conversation, I could never replicate that if I tried.

Hopefully you get points for trying. Or at least for not sounding like Shrek.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:43:42 +0000

No big comments. Just thanks for another episode. I enjoy this podcast so much.

By: Josh R.

Josh R. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:27:37 +0000

STORY: I didn’t really like it. Not because it was a romance — heaven knows I’ve written enough of those — but because it didn’t really cover any new ground for me, and the writing was too slow. There were too many 50-cent words in there, too many moments where I would’ve used simpler language to keep the flow going faster. The whole feel of it was like the flashback sequences in an episode of “Highlander”. All that said, I did believe in the characters, and Nairn was a good protagonist. Marlana penalizing him for misspeaking is typical of a god-in-human-form character, but it was still a major dick move and once Nairn said that I knew what was happening. Honestly, I think this story would’ve been great if it had ended at the moment Nairn truly fell in love with Marlana, and there was no fantasy element at all.

PRODUCTION: Very good. I guessed this was bought so Rish could do his Scottish voices — and you can’t tell me the ubergod creature wasn’t done in the style of Connery. Big’s accent was fine too.

COMMENTARY: If I’d known you were doing V-Day stories, I’d have sent you my SF romance. Maybe next year. On your concern that you’d take flak for running this — I don’t think the flak will come because you ran a romance. I think it’ll come from people who have problems with the story itself. And yes, I’ve noticed other podcasts doing that too. That’s why I record in the basement, and everyone who’s asleep is sleeping on the second floor. (So, you know, if you need screaming and yelling, let me know and I can do more of that… the “death of Agent Howard” from CHEMO was done at full volume.)

By: Wendy Cooper

Wendy Cooper — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:22:35 +0000

Wow, thanks guys for the cry-fest! I don’t usually require tissue when I listen, but today I did. Just when I was tearing up because it was so beautifully perfect, I then had to tear up because it was just so danged tragicly sad.

While I am usually a big fan of happy-ever-after, I truely enjoyed this story. I guess we all need a little tragedy now and again.

As for the voices, the accents didn’t bother me. I know it wasn’t the real McCoy, but I wasn’t offended either.

The bloopers were great.