New story is getting some major attention!

I have a warm and fuzzy feeling today, because Wow! I've just checked, and the new story just published "The Ice Cavern" has already had 2650+ downloads on iTunes in just a couple of days!  The podcast has also been featured in the number one spot on Mypodcast.com - the biggest free host site for iTunes, plus the Tales From The Forest podcast series has been featured in the "what's hot" section on iTunes in the literature podcast section.

I'm feeling warm and fuzzy, because I know that the whole weekend I spent putting this story together was not in vain.  People don't generally realise the time and effort that goes into the making of these stories. There is the script adjusting, the recording (which can take many hours to get right), then there's the editing - splicing together all the best versions of each spoken line.  Then for my style of story, there's the adding of the atmospheric music and sound effects.   Have you ever tried to match a piece of music to a particular scenario or scene?  It can be massively time consuming. I have built up a large library of music that I am licenced to use in my audio recordings, but finding a piece for each scene usually involves listening to 40+ pieces of music at a time to track down a suitable candidate.  There are usually 10+ music scenes in each story, so that's the equivalent of physically sifting through 400+ pieces of music per story, just to find the exact piece that sets the mood and tempo.

Of course, I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't enjoy doing it, as I don't get paid for it - It's just a hobby, but it is nice to see the listening numbers climbing so well.  To me this means people are getting enjoyment from my work, and that makes it all the more worthwhile.