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Maryellen Brady 💗📚's avatar

I love the narration. And you used sound effects too...💝🙌💝

Mina Howell's avatar

Thank you! 🥰

I hope you liked the story too! Lol

Maryellen Brady 💗📚's avatar

Oh yes, it was fantastic. But I loved you narrating it!

Bradley Ramsey's avatar

I've got good news and bad news.

The good news is that this story is amazing, and the narration was PHENOMENAL!

The bad news is that now I want you to narrate everything you write, haha. And I know first-hand how time-consuming that will be, but it's your fault for doing such a good job. 🤷‍♂️

Seriously, this was so good. Your use of sound effects, vocal filters, everything was so damn good! Incredibly immersive.

Mina Howell's avatar

Thank you! 😭

I think I would narrate more if I knew some other voices or something 😅

Bradley Ramsey's avatar

It took me many, many years to develop the voices I do have (and even then, it’s not that many compared to other voice actors).

Even so, I thought you had some good ones here! I would start with trying to do different pitches or accents, and then layer in more complex voices from there.

Like anything else, it just takes practice. You’ve already got a great ear for the tone and pacing of narration, which is honestly one of the toughest things to learn.

For example, when I first started narrating, I read WAY too fast. You don’t have that problem, though. So, you’re already well on your way. 👏👏

Mina Howell's avatar

Thank you for saying that 🥹 I'll definitely start trying some voices lol

I think doing the podcast first really helped me not to read too fast 😅

Kaye's avatar

Lovely of you reading your own story while breathing the tale life.

The history of the Golem is certain an ancient one, and yes, it becomes sad when the spirit loses its owner because now its on its own, lost and without reason.

Wonderful sound effects matching the description... Fantastic job!

Daniel Coates's avatar

Me reading/listening (at the same time):

Oh Mina did a Fantasy! Yes!

Oh that took a turn, dark fantasy, still yes.

Oh he's a huge jerk and so is the new girl.

Oh...

OH....

😭😭😭

😱

(The crying pushed it fully into horror for me 👀)

Excellent story though ❤️

Mina Howell's avatar

Lol yeaaah it kind of got away from me, but that's how the story wanted to go 😅

Daniel Coates's avatar

I still love it 😊

I do love the crying as well, it just shook me a bit 😅

I'm shooketh

Mina Howell's avatar

Lol trust me, I was shaken as well 😂

E. H. Lau's avatar

That was a HEARTfelt fairy tale - I enjoyed it! 😄

Sorry, I hope I'm not being rude - but did you mean Golem instead of Gollum?

From what I could find, Gollum is the name of a character from The Lord of the Rings, while a golem sounds more like the creature that you describe.