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Tee Morris
Before You Hit “Record”
Tim Bourquin
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Content remains crucial to the success of a podcast. While many podcasters have the necessary passion, purpose and dedication, they often lack formal training in assembling their content. Tee Morris, actor, writer and the first book podcaster, glances through the podcasting world and discusses how podcasters can best handle different approaches to content. He does this by dividing content up into three distinct forms: instant, audience contributed and off the cuff.
While Morris agrees that almost all content can be made into a podcast, originality and an interesting hook are still crucial to making a podcast a success. Instant content can come in many forms, from spontaneous interviews, discussions, commentary on the news, the reading of fiction, or selections of music. In contrast to off the cuff content, these can be rehearsed, scripted and edited in post production.
Because of the limitations placed on podcasters, depending on their choice on how to get material and then present it, Morris also looks at the potential pitfalls podcasters may run into. The most destructive of these, if not well thought out, is scripting. What may at first appear to be a structured and well defined flow of content can soon appear stale and uninteresting.
Morris works his way through his favorites and points out how they handle the unique challenges podcasting presented. Whatever the format, be it comedy, weekly discussions, or a daily commentary show, podcasting demands passion, purpose and dedication.
Tee Morris, actor and writer, entered 2005 with an idea, and that idea – podcasting MOREVI in order to promote its sequel, Legacy of Morevi – went on to become the first book podcast in its entirety. That experience led to the founding of Podiobooks.com and the collaboration with Evo Terra on Podcasting for Dummies, the user-friendly, how-to guide to podcasting from Wiley Press. Along with the premiere of that title and Legacy of MOREVI: Book One of the Arathellean Wars, Morris' article "Dear John" appeared in BenBella Books's retrospective Farscape Forever: Sex, Drugs, and Killer Muppets,
With his on-stage and behind-the-scenes experiences from theatre, radio, and television as an actor, Morris continues to explore the possibilities of podcasting with The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy, a podcast that explores marketing and self-promotional concepts for published and soon-to-be-published authors. He is also planning for 2006 a podcast of his novel, Billibub Baddings and The Case of The Singing Sword.
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