When scripting your podcast, it’s important to keep in mind that this is NOT an essay, so don’t write it as if it is. What I mean by this is that as a listener, it is not entertaining to hear someone read out an essay and they are more likely to stop listening if that’s what they hear.
What’s the best way to avoid this? Read it out. Consistently read aloud what you have written to make the determination “is this too essay like or does this sound like how someone would speak?”. During the scripting process I went through multiple drafts and the problem with each scrapped draft was either “it’s too academic” or “it’s too amateur”. What I mean from the latter is that to avoid my script being an essay I went too far in the opposite direction and it ended up as something that sounded more sincere in tone but that tone didn’t match my topic.
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