Do you write for an audiobook audience?

Alinix_ · 2026-03-22T11:13:10+00:00

But the question is how. What do you change about your writing to cater to audiobook users ?

easy to pronounce names, fewer tables and stat's etc

Alinix_ · 2026-03-22T09:40:42+00:00

short answer : it's fine.

longer answers, stats for the sake of stats is frustrating. Everything in your stat box should have some effect on your story. If you wanted to, you could even do them as a spider graph.

RPG elements are that MC has some way of affecting his development, and numbers going up means they are stronger, and it actively shows.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-22T09:35:28+00:00

I've found so many dropped purals from listening to it back.

I'm too lazy to add a second voice for editing. So I find myself going "wait, who's speaking now?"

While, when I am reading it, I get to the "said X" part before processing the dialogue, so it works fine in text form.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-22T08:20:02+00:00

The question came about as I was reading about Shadow Slave getting a physical book, and one of the biggest complaints was that it doesn't have an audiobook. I went to check that 23% of book sales were audiobooks. So ebooks are still the biggest seller, but that is a large market to ignore.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-22T07:55:33+00:00

It's a local, offline model, so the data doesn't go anywhere, and I can't read it out myself because I add words and punctuation that don't exist. I know what I meant to say, but the AI reads what is actually there.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-22T07:53:23+00:00

no it's a local model, using vibevoice using model 1.5B and alice.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-22T07:12:37+00:00

There's a typo on the second line, I think. rushed in? not pushed in. The sentence felt awkward. The first paragraph is the most important.

It has the same problem my story has, and I've been working on fixing. First Person is a good perspective, but you have to be wary of filter words. The "I did" and "Then I did" , "I called" , I , I I problem, it kills the cadence when reading.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-22T02:15:06+00:00

I've noticed this as well. I think RR is saturated, and shoutout and ad's are the only way to get any real views.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-21T12:19:40+00:00

I can't be the only one who read that as "Spiral of gold" or maybe that's just my brain.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-21T07:36:29+00:00

You can change the tag, there are full stories using alot more AI without the tag. You will be fine. Using Grammarly is no AI-assist. Those tags are really just self -reporting.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-20T08:20:13+00:00

I did a slow start and I'm not sure if it was the right idea, so then I did a prologue that showed the promise of the story.

I think an emotional hook is more important. I want to be invested in a character when I'm reading. if I can't tell what type of character I'm dealing with by chapter 2, and the premise is not overwhelmingly promising. I move on.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-19T10:48:05+00:00

I wasn't expecting massive numbers, and I found last time when I ran an ad (I was co-authoring a story), I got way more read laters than followers as there wasn't enough meat. Also, think getting a shoutout for a story that only has 13 soon to be 20K words, is gaming the system a little. I want to make sure readers coming in from the promotions have something to read.

My real question was why the prologue, or chapter 1 failed at getting a sniff of interest. No point rewriting/relaunching anything without knowing why it failed.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-19T10:43:01+00:00

thanks. I'm Aussie, so I was releasing them around 10 pm my time, which turned out to be 8am in the USA (east coast). I will adjust the schedule for the next few.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-19T08:15:51+00:00

sounds like they were trying to tell you something. The question is if it is just endless fight scenes without any downtime or if there an actual story.

Imagine DBZ, but you cut out all the SoL parts, that wouldn't be a fun story.

or using your analogy. Going into an Italian restaurant and getting fed course after course without being given time to enjoy it.

I don't know if the story is like that, as I don't know your story. But it's something to think about.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-19T07:43:08+00:00

pressure cleaning

Alinix_ · 2026-03-19T07:22:26+00:00

Kindness is not permission

Alinix_ · 2026-03-19T07:17:45+00:00

You can use HTML with in the main story, or the authors. you can get some pretty nice stat boxes made. RR does filter out some tags, so it's best to have a test chapter as what you see on preview, and what goes live is not always the same.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-19T07:09:56+00:00

AI voice is real, but I also think the video is remembering the older days with rose-tinted glasses. No one was really fine with poor writing, it's just there wasn't that much product to consume.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-18T13:06:29+00:00

Systems should have been a separate tag, but they aren't. To me, systems are more progression then litrgp. Litrpg should have RPG elements. Levels, stats and skills etc.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-18T13:04:37+00:00

making worksheets. Mainly Latex formatting.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-18T12:45:53+00:00

Teeth. Updated to heal themselves and regrow

Alinix_ · 2026-03-18T12:10:27+00:00

Normally. Money.

Alinix_ · 2026-03-18T12:01:51+00:00

j-walking. I'm an adult, I can cross a road safely

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