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You won't always be in the same place.
As I was looking for some documents in my office yesterday, I stumbled across a sheet of notebook paper from my high school days in a folder of random papers. On it was a poem I'd written somewhere...
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Follow the Light | a flash fiction story
A few days ago, I was trying to do some reading, but my mind kept wandering from the book. Not because it wasn't any good, but because for some reason, there was a scene playing out in my mind that had...
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A Christmas Legend by Florence Scannell | a short story audiobook
As a little gift for my family for Christmas, I decided to produce an audio version of a holiday-themed short story. After a few days of research and digging around the public domain, I found this...
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Finding Value in Loss | an audio essay
Originally intended to be a submission for a short-form audio production challenge, this piece was written based on the prompt, "Lost And Found", and is one of the most personal things I've ever...
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Another Year Older, Another Year Wiser | a micro audio drama
I referenced an audio production challenge in my last post, which prompted that audio essay. After deciding not to use that project for the challenge, I went back to the drawing board and tossed around...
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Wonderful Is He | a worship song
Almost 25 years ago, I wrote a short, 8-line worship song and sang it a few times when leading worship at a church in eastern Oregon. I have not written many songs, but the ones I have written have...
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Lumi and the Daffodils | a micro audio drama
I have had a few tidbits of story and character ideas in my notes for quite some time. As I began to brainstorm about a story that I could write for an audio production challenge, I started ruminating...
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T-shirts for the Coffee Lovers Like Me
Back in 2021, I had an idea for a t-shirt design for people, like me, who are coffee lovers. I made a mockup and sent it to a couple friends as a joke, ended up ordering one for myself, but then didn't...
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A New Direction for This Show - CCM11
You know, I have been involved in a lot of different creative projects over the years, and in the years since this show has begun, that scope of different types of projects has expanded quite a bit. I...
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Why I Read Fiction - CCM12
I’ve known some folks who considered reading fiction to be a waste of time. They would only read nonfiction. I very much disagree with this point of view. While I do read nonfiction, the majority of my...
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The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key, Narrated by J.D. Sutter
It is Independence Day here in the ol' U S of A so I decided to share a little patriotic piece with you. Every American knows the National Anthem, but many do not realize that those eight lines are...
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Voicing Adam in an Audio Drama of the Genesis Story
This past winter, I auditioned to play the role of Adam in an audio drama about The Fall in the Book of Genesis that was being produced by a non-profit organization called HeartMatters. I could tell...
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It's Ok to Be Nervous When Pushing Yourself Creatively
Well, my next micro audio drama is in the works. And I'm nervous.Nervous because I'm trying some different things. Pushing myself outside of my comfort zone as a creator and voice actor.Nervous because...
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Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red | a poem for Hobbit Day
I have been dealing with a severe cold for about a week now and I was very hesitant to record anything for this year's Hobbit Day, but I decided to go ahead. I hope the slightly froggy voice doesn't...
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The Brokenhearted | a micro audio drama
This piece was originally written for a 5-minute audio production challenge but even though the script was only 4 pages, the final produced runtime ended up being too long for that purpose. Due to...
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Adapting Literature into Audio - CCM13
As an audio producer who has worked on audio dramas and audiobooks, and as a fan of audio dramatizations of novels, the topic of adaptation is one that I think about often. Most people will probably...
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One Day in Aspen Creek, Audio Drama Series Coming Soon
As you know if you have been following my blog for the last year, I've been sharing lots of short-form audio content here. One of the micro audio dramas from early this year, "Another Year Older,...
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Another Day, Another Dollar | a micro audio drama
The micro audio drama below is a follow-up to "Another Year Older, Another Year Wiser," retroactively making that one the first episode of what is now this new series, One Day in Aspen Creek! Episode...
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Just Another Day | a micro audio drama
This micro audio drama is Episode 3 of the series, One Day in Aspen Creek. I had been wanting to produce a new audio short for Christmas this year but was struggling to latch onto an idea that felt...
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Looking Back on 2024 Highlights
This post is going back to the roots of this site; it's more of a journal entry than original content. If that's not of interest to you, feel free to skip it and come back when I post my next creative...
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Fragile | a poem
I have dabbled in writing poetry since high school. Unsurprisingly, most of what I wrote back then is pretty subpar stuff, and that's putting it mildly. But the poem below is one of the first poems I...
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Top 6 Books I Read in 2024 - CCM14
I read 107 books in 2024 and out of all those, I had 25 books that I rated 5 stars. And an additional 39 more were 4 stars or between 4 and 5. (The StoryGraph, the tool that I use to track my reads,...
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A Thousand Moons | a poem
I have long appreciated good poetry and have enjoyed trying my hand at writing a poem here and there since high school. Most of that early work is really bad, as I've talked about before, but I like to...
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Pocket Casts Commits to Open Podcasting
Today, the team behind Pocket Casts, the podcast app that I have used as my main podcast-listening tool for a decade, announced that they are moving their web player and cross-platform syncing features...
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The Wind Was on the Withered Heath (Dwarves Song at Beorn's Hall) by J.R.R....
As a fan of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, I have been trying to share a project to commemorate the various Tolkien-related holidays for a few years now. With today being Tolkien Reading Day, I have...
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