Find a manuscript that reflects the choices made in steps #1 and #2 that you can record. This is the most critical step in the process to get going.

If you've created a detailed description of who your audience is and know what they want to hear, you will have narrowed the manuscript field to a degree and it will be easier to settle on a few titles that will resonate with your target market.

If your are an author, this will be easy for you because you already have material and most importantly, own the copyright.

For those who aren't authors, once you've chosen a manuscript prepare to have some fun with it! Learn about the author, the story and the characters from the perspective of a producer or director. Start to envision the narrative skill and inherent qualities in a voice that you feel would best represent the author's vision. Jot down any thoughts and ideas that you have. Let the text speak to you and remember that the storyteller's voice is a vehicle for audibly communicating the written word as the author intended.

Remember, the story, and not the narrator, is the focal point.

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