Living the Fictional Dream

I was rejected again today from a fiction podcast. I wonder what it takes to get into one of those markets. I’ve been trying for months now, and have not cracked it yet. I had a story in the “maybe” pile for a while once at one of the more minor venues, but even that one was eventually rejected.

Perhaps it is just that, since they take reprints, they have so many good stories that they can’t accept very many? Or maybe there is something about my writing in particular that does not lend itself to the audio format.

Hrm…

Have any of y’all ever been accepted or published by a fiction podcast? Any tips to share for making one’s writing more accessable to an audio format?

I would think that a story would need to have a tight plot to fare well in audio, and that favoring action over lots of character development and description would help. Audio seems to me a medium where keeping the story moving is a plus. But I’ve heard stories at some of the various podcasts out there that go the complete opposite, emphasizing the less active elements of a story. I would also think giving characters distinctive voices would be helpful for podcasts.

This is obviously a question that I will have to ponder as I cull through my reprints to decide if any of them are worthy of podcast submission.