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Boston, Massachusetts
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My Hate-Hate Relationship With the Tool-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named

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By Karen Given
| narrativebeat.com
In case you’ve been living under a podcasting rock, Descript is an all-in-one audio and video editing software. And yeah…I’m an audio person. So I’m gonna stick to the stuff I know. Like many of you, I have lost DAYS of my life to various Descript dramas. I have watched in terror as it has glitched, hiccuped, and out-and-out failed. I have had my workday interrupted by constant updates and unnecessary changes to the UI.
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5 Things I (Still) Do Better Than AI

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By Karen Given
| narrativebeat.com
5 Things I (Still) Do Better than AI Hello friends...and happy 2024! I've been struggling with how to close out this past year. If you've been paying any attention at all, you know that there's been a ton of doom and gloom in our industry as of late. And yeah, I could write about that. But seriously – who wants more doom and gloom? And the truth is, it's been a very productive year for me.
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Learn to Let Go (In 10 Easy Steps)

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By Karen Given
| narrativebeat.com
As promised, I have scheduled our next Narrative Beat workshop, How to Make a Story. We're gonna plot the process of making a story -- from beginning to end. How do you turn a concept into a pitch? How do you turn a pitch into a series of interviews? How do you turn those interviews into a script? And finally, how do you add music and sound design to bring it all together? This workshop is a great fit for folks who are relatively new to audio storytelling.
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