Writing Chatter!

I’ve called this little section of the website “Chatter” for as long as I’ve had this website. This isn’t my first online blog, but it is by far the longest lived… my previous efforts were aimless, often just a temporary outlet for my creativity during periods of time that I had no other way to deal with the world.

They weren’t good. Don’t go looking: you will only be disappointed.

Anyway, that’s not what I’m actually talking about here. What I am talking about is a particular brand of chatter that I now need to write a lot of. Specifically the type of chatter you get between athletes before boxing/MMA matches, and the kind of chatter that announcers and reporters need to maintain while covering such events. My current audio story podcast (I say “current” but I mean the one I am currently working on, it’s not live yet) is a sports-thing, and I am not a sports-guy by default. I used to watch a fair amount of hockey as a way to bond with my father, but he’s moved on to F1 and I’ve moved on to not-having-time-or-money-for-watching-sports.

Such is life.

But I’m excited about this! It means I get to write a lot of little snippy lines in a lot of different voices. I’m going to try very hard to avoid stereotypes, of course, but I’m really excited to sprinkle in some variety into the characters and their dialog. I love writing dialog, and this is nothing but dialog!

I’ll keep everyone posted about how it goes!

Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!