: Re: Writing for an Audio book. What are specifics? What are specific requirements, a writer should follow, when writing something that is going to be (or just can possibly be) not only read but

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The best advice I can give: read aloud what you've written. When you write a book, you're writing for the eye. When you write an audio piece, you're writing for the ear. If it doesn't sound good when you read aloud, then it won't sound good to the reader.

Some specific tips

Be concise and keep sentence structure simple. We're listening,
not reading so we've got to
comprehend quick and fast.
Write the way you speak.
Write as though you're communicating with one person at a time, that's how people will listen after all.
Use more present participles than you would for a book or text-on-paper kind of piece. For a book, it's good to avoid the verb "to be" -- but for an audio piece, it works because we use "to be" in speech constantly.

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