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Hacker & Maker
Intermediate
Session
Sunday 10:00 am
Room 232

Writing For Audio Fiction

Writing for audio fiction is its own strange animal, with distinct pitfalls and opportunities.

Drew Frohmann is the writer and director of two award-winning narrative podcasts, the Canadian mystery comedy Sorry About The Murder and the sci-fi comedy HUMAN-B-GON.

In this session Drew will talk about writing specifically for audio fiction.

He’ll talk about formatting scripts, the importance of details in description, the role of music & sound design in your writing, writing for actors, how to avoid the dreaded infodump, and why he thinks audio is the most visual medium.

Key Takeaways

  • Incorporating sound design effectively
  • How to use music
  • How to deal with exposition
  • Writing for actors
  • Writing audio that is visual

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