Has anyone found continuing ed that truly hones musicality and narrative flow, not just terminology? I’m eyeing the BCLT Summer School in July and a 6‑week evening module on prosody (Tuesdays 7–9 pm), but I need something that helps me carry a narrator’s breath across chapters — did either deepen your ear in practice?
Try shadowing audiobooks (https://librivox.org), then record Tuesdays 7–9 drafts; it sharpened “carry a narrator’s breath”. Did BCLT offer coached read‑alouds?
What finally helped my ear was reading each draft aloud to a slow metronome (about 70 BPM), recording, and marking actual inhale points in the text; I revise until I can “carry a narrator’s breath” across 2–3 measures without strain. It feels a bit mechanical at first, but it tightened my phrasing more than any terminology course. Would that Tuesday 7–9 prosody module let you submit short audio clips for feedback so you can road‑test the breath marks?
Building on @bengree, take a finished page and ‘sing it on one note’ into your phone, then tweak syntax and pronoun placement until the line runs clean — like checking a bike chain for a squeak. If you do BCLT, ask for a short read‑aloud surgery with your tutor; the prosody module gives tools, but the recording loop is what trains the ear. If you’ve got a 60–90 second passage you test with, I’d be curious how it fares with the one‑note pass.