Bruce Coville's inspiration

I saw Bruce Coville speak tonight, and let me tell you that is what inspiration is made of. That man is the epitome of doing what he loves, being passionate, creative and getting himself out there(marketability).

If you do not know who Bruce Coville is, he owns a audio book production company, Professor Stearns spoke briefly about him in our last meeting.

I would like to say, for this block Chris and I are making a graphic novel with comic life, but after Coville's speech i am so inspired, i am going to work with audio next block. After hearing what Bruce has done with novel's I want to do the same soooo bad! I am very excited, I am thinking of doing a technology in the classroom version of an audio book. And that would be, a podcast of a short story.

Bruce broke the tradition of most audio books having a single speaker. Traditionally that was the case, one speaker would drone on for the length of a novel. What his production company does is cast each role and have multiple actors read the lines. I think this is fascinating. As he was speaking i kept thinking of animated films or clay-mation where the actors recite the lines as voice-over.
The beauty of audio books is that there are no images (which is why i would not do a modified podcast). Like reading you can still let your imagination hop all over the place creating whatever images you fancies.

I would like to get a bigger group together, and collaboratively write a short story. Maybe 5 of us. I was thinking the length would be around 10 minutes. I need writers!! I am very excited about this, it is the crosshatching of performing a play and writing a story. It is a film, without the film. Some of the most respectable directors say the best acting is executed without having to say a word. Well, this is a chance to conversely give a powerful performance without any actions.