With many friends who are animators, I get immersed in and entertained by their prolific drawings during the month of “Inktober.” I was inspired by their efforts and decided to do the same with my voiceover work. The name VOvember popped into mind (and made me chuckle) since my VO fun follows the month after their Inktober.
So, scroll on down and here’s to VOvember and the creativity and exploration it brings each year!
VOvember 19th: “Horizon” is today’s prompt for my VOvember time behind the mic. I thought for sure it’d end up an opportunity to record some of my fave 50s sci-fi genre, but instead it led me to a 1906 book called “The Far Horizon” by Lucas Malet (pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley). It’s dense text which made it really fun to tackle, even just for this one short paragraph. #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Horizon
Content Source: “The Far Horizon” by Lucas Malet (1906)
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VOvember 14th: “Drive” is today’s prompt for my VOvember time behind the mic, and it led me to a story from the March, 1913 issue of Top-Notch magazine. This is a bit of “When Titans Drive” by Burt L. Standish. #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Drive
Content Source: “When Titans Drive” by Burt L. Standish (1913)
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VOvember 13th: “Ridge” is today’s prompt for my VOvember time behind the mic, and it led me to a 1919 book called “Red Ben, the fox of Oak Ridge” by Joseph Wharton Lippincott. Here’s the start of chapter I. #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Ridge
Content Source: “Red Ben” by Joseph Wharton Lippincott (1919)
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VOvember 6th: “Scarecrow” is today’s prompt for my VOvember time behind the mic, and it took me to the 9th of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books: “The Scarecrow of Oz.” Did you know that “The Wizard of Oz” was just the first in what would become 14 full-length Oz books? Here’s the start of chapter I. #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Scarecrow
Content Source: “The Scarecrow of Oz” by L. Frank Baum (1915)
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Prompt: Camera
Content Source: “Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera; Or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures” by Victor Appleton (1912)
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VOvember 5th: Today’s prompt of “Road” for my VOvember time behind the mic (and a distraction from Election Day returns coming in) gave me yet another opportunity to explore 1960s Sci-Fi. Here’s the opening of a story called “Road Stop” by David Mason from the January ’63 issue of Worlds of If Science Fiction magazine. #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Road
Content Source: “Road Stop” by David Mason (1963)
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VOvember 4th: Today’s prompt of “Jumbo” for my VOvember time behind the mic first let me to text about the famed elephant by that name, but I instead selected this bit from an 1899 story with a wee bunny by the same name instead. Here’s the opening of chapter two of “A Tale of the Summer Holidays.” #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Jumbo
Content Source: “A Tale of the Summer Holidays” by G. Mockler (1899)
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VOvember 3rd: First recordings of this year’s VOvember and I’m already pulling out bits and pieces of mid-century Sci-Fi. Some things never change! Today’s prompt, “navigator,” led to “Lancelot Biggs, Master Navigator” by Nelson S. Bond from “Fantastic Adventures” Magazine (1940) #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Navigator
Content Source: “Lancelot Biggs, Master Navigator” by Nelson S. Bond (1940)
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VOvember 1st: VOvember 1st: A bunch of awesome artist friends just finished “Inktober.” I’m following suit — for the 6th year in a row now — with my own version of the fun and creativity: VOvember!
I’m so glad VOvember is now an annual tradition based on a desire to reinforce a daily creative habit. VOvember reminds me to explore new text, new voices, new characters, new approaches — and reinforces doing so quickly to just get the sound out there in the moment and experiment with it later if I like. So, here’s #1 of 2024. The prompt: “Landmark.” The text, from “The Fastest Draw” by Larry Eisenberg from Amazing Stories Magazine (1964) #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Inktober #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Landmark
Content Source: “The Fastest Draw” by Larry Eisenberg (1964)
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VOvember 30th: Life got in the way of doing VOvember recordings for the last several days. But here’s a final one to cap off the month’s VOvember time behind the mic. Today’s prompt: “Dream.” And I let it lead me to 60’s sci-fi, because that’s one of my happy places and we should all visit our happy places as often as possible. #VOvember #VOvember2023 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Dream
Content Source: “The Big Engine” by Fritz Leiber (1962)
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