Indie AF

This new JOYOUS episode of INDIE AF looks at what its like to be a neurospicy creative with guests ANDI WHITE CARL G BROOKS JEN DEHAAN There is so much explored in this episode from how to utilise neurospicy fuelled creative skills and our beautiful unique brains to help make the very best audio fiction. Carl makes up a new word - rackedly - Andi becomes our dictionary of terms corner, and Jen shares many top tips on making working practices better. We explore being and working with being alexithymia hyperfantastia, dyslexia, interoception, ptsd and more. Yes, we may overshare, yes one project is just boring when seven will do, but mostly, we strive to get things done - and oh how exciting it is to actually finish something - like getting this episode out! It should be celebrated! Why? Because... We also talk Why its almost impossible to work in a linear fashion Why Multi-tasking is the norm Why there should be a burnout warning indicator Why putting direction in the script helps actors and post prod to know what to do How shrinking the font helps actors understand you want them to talk quieter/whisper What ADHD means How finishing something is a major achievement How folks can help neurodiverse folks be their best and not have to mask up or shrink Why deadlines are missed What spoons are and why they’re important How having the ability to do asynchronous things can help Having very clear requirements sent in good time Why networking is difficult What RSD is What masking is AND SO MUCH MORE± HUGE THANKS to my wonderful patreons - I am ever so grateful for you all, supporting my works and helping get this lovely fun filled show out into the world and giving audio fiction creators a voice. If you want to help more eps get made, please feel free! Here I truly hope you enjoy this ep, feel seen, and reach out if you need to to any of us or the links below. Whatever happens, know you have a tribe in audio fiction creatives, and hope you can continue to make the very best of your inate superpowers, can unmask and be your authentic self and create. HAPPY MAKING AF Sarah🌞 Links to ANDI INSTA FB LINKED IN https://www.tiktok.com/@AndiGWhite TIKTOK Links to CARL Dyslexic page Website Socials Affiliate & Neurodiverse Producer: dyslexy Links to JEN Audio Dramas AuDHD coaching & Wired Divergent podcast/YouTube (a lot of further educational stuff about many of the things mentioned today too) Your Improv Brain podcast/YouTube (neurodivergent & improv) That improv site where you can "improvise with me" in scenes (it's a bit) mentioned near the end Sarahs links of audio loving joy ⁠⁠⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WIRELESS THEATRE⁠ USEFUL LINKS AUTISM SOCIETY PDA SOCIETY ADHD HELP MIND QUEER AND NON BINARY ADHD SUPPORT ADDA USA NEURODOVERSITY SUPPORT Please email me to send any comments on this ep, or leave them on the Spotify app - would LOVE to have any new reviews, ratings or a simple share to your networks helps Some other points to ponder gently from Andi: Always remember this world is set up for neurotypical people. Find a tribe of similar people who really understand. I feel there's a high probability that if you (the listener) don't already know of several in your network as being neurodiverse, a good proportion of them will be and you don't know it. Following on.... there's probably others in your network who are, who don't know it yet. If you can, try to be open with collaborators about neurospicyness. It might help clear up possible conflicts and misunderstandings before they turn into big issues. Find ways to work that work for you. The rest of world may say you should focus on one project at a time - but if that isn't working for you, do something different. Experiment, find your own pattern and stay with that.

TOPIC - SCORYTELLLING Hello you wonderful creative folks - today we explore SCORE-YTELLING - yes, telling story with music and score - and with our super groovy expert guests >>>> CAT BLACKARD AND JESSICA MUDD They have a good number of superb shows you can find and explore, linked below - and some of which is showcased through clips on this 'ere indie af interview show with me, SARAH GOLDING - HALLO! >>> Hunt and find and enjoyyyyy>>>> MOTHER SHE WROTE CALL OF CTHULU MYSTERY PROGRAMME DUNGEONS AND DORITOS And more! Cat and Jess said>>>>>>>> “We'd love to hear more original scores in indie audio fiction spaces and want to de-mystify this process to inspire more collaboration and offer storytellers a whole new toolset of storytelling possibilities.” Yes, I think this ep does that in abundance! Enjoy ! Hearty thanks once more to my amazing patreons who support my work on this podcast and help keep it buoyant - if you’ve like to support Quirky Voices and Indie AF, and have more episode topics of your choice, please do… here! Or ping me a ko-fi here I would love feedback which you can do directly on Spotify, by leaving a review or by emailing me direct on [email protected] with grateful thanks indeed. We explore so much in the ep including>>>> Working for free to get cracking What to pay musicians you work with - and SAG AFTRA pay grades for actors Where to find collaborators Collaborating as a non musician with a composer Finding themes in music Creating character motifs with music Creating mood with music Blending instruments to give certain vibes What diegetic music does How to feedback notes to a musician We truly hope this inspires you to work with a composer to enhance the awesome of your audio fiction, or if you are a musician, to advertise your wares on places such as the audio drama hub or audio drama reddit! and get collaborating! And do ping me on any of my links below and I will happily ping out your wares! HAPPY MUSICI-NG AND COMPOSING AND CREATING! Thank you so much for listening - please do share this in your own audio fiction loving circles! THANK YOUP NOW GET OUT THERE AND MAKE AMAZING AF AF! Sarah🌞 People and Audio AF things we mention you should hunt and follow and work with! Tom Rory Parsons Oliver Morris Jess’ sound cloud Ryann McQuinn Sarah Rhea Werner Katie Seaton TAFCON TECH mentioned Complete control S88 Midi BBC Orchestra Music library - Spitfire audio WAVES - Ovox Links to Cat and Jess A good general link for Cat Omniverse "MOTHER," She Wrote The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program Ryan McQuinn The Omniverse Discord Bluesky for Jess Bluesky for Cat Sarah Links of audio joy ⁠⁠⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠⁠⁠⁠ Fiction Podcast weekly home ⁠⁠⁠⁠WIRELESS THEATRE⁠ HAPPY CREATING YOU SUPER LOVELY FOLKS I am available for DIALOGUE EDITING, VOICE ACTING AND VERY BAD HARMONICA PLAYING....please hit me up on my email [email protected] or on any of the socials above! 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

The wonderful *****FAITH MCQUINN AND *****FLLOYD KENNEDY Join me to chat all things getting funded - or not - for your amazing audio drama creation. Some strive, surpass themselves and succeed and others sadly sink - for a sec - and strive again! HEREIN LIE SOME UNMISSABLE CROWDFUNDING TALES! I truly love allll of my guests on this show and these two AND ALLL OTHERS deserve your attention too, so please follow the show note links below, find, follow and listen to their brilliant shows. Amongst much other INDIE AF goodness, We discussed: Which platforms these brilliant creatives utilise for crowdfunding How using Stripe for payments is just like PayPal or Wise…. Where to ask and who to ask for help with crowdfunding - inc Tal Minear, Bob Raymonda PM folks to get them to contribute directly and tap your email lists for support! Get folks to commit in advance to the crowdfunder Don’t pop in bigger amounts as the crowdfunders take commissions from it- tell them funds you have raised elsewhere so you don’t lose out! Crowdfunding campaigns are a SECOND JOB PEOPLE - You Must COMMMIT! Ways folks connected with their potential audience How asking favours is ok! Encourage your casts to help with fundraising by putting it in contracts so you can get more support and further reach! Are newsletters important? Which socials to use for reach What pre-hype looked like Making an ep as a calling card to encourage contributions - proof in the pudding! What to do when folks donate! Perks given on different tiers for all projects Mistakes made Merch created Valuing your time! AND OH SO MUCH MOOOORE! HUUUGE thanks to my wonderful patient PATREON SUPPORTERS (join them by clicking here!) who have continued to support my Quirky works and this particular podcast. Their perks include getting the full undedited unexpurgated video chats of these podcasts, some Sarahness and more! Yes! Visuals! And alllll the mistakes! 😂 Huge thanks to you listener Please do share this ep with your network, and help others find it, and oh it would be wonderful to have a review! Or send feedback or potential ep ir guest ideas and ep hooks you know we can chat on so folks will level up their creative practice... [email protected]. Happy creating all and hope your next crowdfunder goes brilliantly! Sarahx Links to Faith’s creative drawers of joy observerpictures.com (that's all the things) patreon.com/observerpix ko-fi.com/observerpix If people would like to see my old campaign: https://www.ifundwomen.com/projects/apollyon-final-season-1 Oh! And the place I use for stickers is Sticker Ninja. They are amazing. Links to Flloyd’s inspiring drawers of audio groovy www.flloydkennedy.com www.thundersmouththeatre.com www.AmIOldYet.com (AF podcast) www.beinginvoice.co People and Things of groovy mentioned in this show! LAST DANCE DASHERY for merch SPRING for t-shirts and hats BOB Raymonda TAL Minear Audio Drama Hub Kickstarter Indigogo Seed and Sperk Crowdfundrr Ifundwomen Sarah’s groovy links of audio joy ⁠⁠⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠WIRELESS THEATRE⁠ Now go thou to thine fav'rite place and Maketh more groovy AF indie AF!

Hello audio creatives - 'ow do? I (excitedly) caught up with three very busy and brilliant AWARD WINNING PRO VOICE ACTORS about not being a newbie anymore -and we explore the good the bad and the noise reduction of being a feisty working VA. Thank you SO MUCH to my Wonderful guests: Karim Kronfli Marta Da Silva Margaret Ashley Herein we find out how ridiculous a warm up sounds in an interview podcast, and what these wonderful folks have done to get where they re today! Though there be a squeaky chair, We discuss: ** Why we persevere in this industry ** Hurray for actors of a certain age ** Inspiration for working in audio ** Why amdram groups are groovy ** Auditioning top tips ** Fave tech Tools ** How once upon a time you sent recorded tape through the post to folks for auditions! ** Etiquette and tips for studio rec and home rec setups ** Why tenacity and begging for work are groovy things! ** How smaller parts lead to bigger ones! ** Cold emailing - why not!? ** When these folks realised they had made it as a VA ** Developing the technical craft of acting ** What actor training and coaching is important ** Check Bluesky, Insta, Linked in, Tumblr, CCC, Backstage for work ** Careful to check the pedigree of projects you audition for ** Why TAFCON and HUBFEST are groovy things ** Why production companies need to make themselves findable ** Paper script etiquette (or…just get an iPad and i-annotate!) ** Using AI in this space….(no fighting)…and how they can help ** BRILLIANT TRAINING COURSES AND FOLKS TO WORK WITH ** Why doing speed reading is amazing helpful ** Why you should tell my guests they are awesome, and share, rate and review this show! THANK YOUP Please hydrate every time you hear the squeaky chair! Thank you so soooo much to my wonderful Patreon supporters who help make me make this show, and without whom this may well have stopped as a resource! MUCH APPRECIATE YOU ALL - PAST AND PRESENT! You wanna help me keep going - please share the ep, or feel free to become a patreon for $2 a month and keep these chats a-cominnnn HUZZAHS There will be a short break for a few weeks from public ep releases whilst I have a wee holiday. (As in small, Its not a bladder problem) BUT my patreons will continue to get the zoom vids of the Eos we create…. ** aND A wee chat on voice reels… HAPPY VOICE ACTING PEOPLE Sarah🌞 _____ SOME SHOWS / NOTEWORTHY COMPANIES WE MENTION HEREIN>> 2000 AND LATE FAN FICTION FOR BABYLON 5 AUDIO DRAMA PRODUCTION HOLY SMOKES AUDIO - JOEL AND ADAM JACKIE THE RIPPER UNSEEN PODCAST THE GRAY ROOMS WIRELESS THEATRE SOME PEOPLE WE MENTION DAVID GOODISON KESSI RILINIKI NIC REDMAN TRAVIS VENGROF / KAITLIN STATZ GABRIEL URBINA OLIVER MORRIS TANYA RICH Margaret Ashley links of cool>>> Website Spotlight Linked-In Insta Marta Da Silva links of groovy>>> Website BLUESKY INSTA Karim links of audio fun>>> Website BLUESKY SPOTLIGHT Sarahs Groovy Links of audio loving joy>>> ⁠⁠⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WIRELESS THEATRE⁠ Sarah’s editing course of joy - please do email me if you want any help with a course on editing, voice acting, directing, producing... [email protected] KARIM SAID>>> 'It's a selection game not a rejection game' GOOO GEDDEMMMMM >>> Please share rate and review this pod And CAST US ALL! FANKS Sx

Hello INDIE AF creatives! Hope your creative week is productive and as brilliant as you! I had a joyous eve talking to the wonderful folks from FOOL AND SCHOLAR - TRAVIS VENGROF AND KAITLIN STATZ- and also there is a super special dreamy guest thought mind link to the wonderful PIP THORNE of THE AMELIA PROJECT on his thoughts on their Patreon - honestly - INVALUABLE ADVICE HEREIN. We chat all things Starting up and what is important? Is Patreon the right platform to choose? Choosing tiers and what posts work for engagement? Why the free tier is important Why in universe ads may not be cost effective What perks are worth it and what’s insane to tryyyyy! How the PATREON community functions have changed (for the better) Why Patreon is a wonderful place for fan engagement WHAT FEES ARE - ARGH Why the perpetual nature of it is hard! Who lurks in their Discord! FOOL AND SCHOLAR FINANCE BREAKDOWN - HERE! A little about taxes (booo the taxmansss) Is video a useful part of Patreons wares Issues with APPLE SUBSCRIPTIONS Why the Sonic College is.a groovy place Other places to use - DRIP / KO-FI / KICKSTARTER / MEMBERFUL Pip’s contribution was pinged in via WhatsApp so I DID MY BEST WITH QUALITY but he was out and about at some point too - so it has ambient stroll noises of the streets of Europe! Truly grateful to Pip for this wonderful insight, and to Travis and Kaitlin too for sharing such amazing lived experience and advice - and long may they make recognised and well supported audio fiction! Pop onto their patreons - ah gwan - talking of which - feel free to join mine with grateful thanks! Seee the videos of these wonderful folks and get a fuller ep If you enjoyed this ep or any INDIE AF ep, please share and oh a review would be lovely - or you can leave a message on spotify too! HAPPY CREATING! Sarah🌞 Links to Travis and Kaitlin Fool and scholar Patreon Fool and Scholar Website Fool and Scholar YouTube Finnur Nielson Insta Budget link Fool and Scholar works Travis on bluesky Links to Pip and The Amelia Project Amelia Project Website Amelia Project Patreon Pip on Insta Sarah’s links of audio Lovin joy ⁠⁠⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WIRELESS THEATRE⁠ LINK TO THE AMELIA PROJECT - LIVE! DELIVERY AFTER DARK - Preview screenings The first preview screenings of our new project, on 5th, 6th August 2026, after the live show! What happens when you strip cinema down and rebuild it with the grammar of audio drama? This is a film you hear. The visual world is reduced to passing lights and shadows, while the real drama unfolds in sound, in the mind, just beyond the frame's edge. Delivery After Dark is our strange new folk horror fiction, and you can be one of the very first people to experience it!