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 30th: “Discover” is today’s prompt for my VOvember time behind the mic — the end of this year’s VOvember fun, in fact. And not only did the prompt lead me to ’50s sci-fi (huzzah!), it’s ’50s sci-fi with a chickens theme! Yes! Just at the time of year my Cluck of the Bells and Sleigh Cluck videos start going viral again (https://www.youtube.com/@fullervoice – me clucking Christmas tunes with animation by very dear and talented friends of mine) comes this beautiful confluence of VOvember sci-fi recordings and December chickens! Here’s a bit from “Chicken Farm” by Ross Rocklynne from the March 1953 Planet Stories magazine. #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Discover
Content Source: “Chicken Farm” by Ross Rocklynne (1953)
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VOvember 28th: “Exotic” is today’s prompt for my VOvember time behind the mic, and it led me to a short story and a fascinating tidbit. The short story is “An Exotic Prince” and the fascinating tidbit is that while it is attributed to Guy de Maupassant, apparently that is not true and that more than 60 short stories in the early 1900s were attributed to him but aren’t now believed to have actually ever been written by him — not that he was passing off someone else’s work as his own, but rather some other reason which seems to still be a bit of a mystery. Literary trivia for you. https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/14259/which-short-stories-are-falsely-attributed-to-guy-de-maupassant-and-why #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Exotic
Content Source: “An Exotic Prince” author unkonwn but attributed to Guy de Maupassant (1909)
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VOvember 27th: “Binoculars” is today’s prompt for my VOvember time behind the mic, and I was happy to find that it led me to 50s Sci-Fi. This is the from a Galaxy Science Fiction magazine piece called “The Luckiest Man in Denv” by Simon Eisner, published in 1952. #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Binoculars
Content Source: “The Luckiest Man in Denv” by Simon Eisner (1952)
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VOvember 24th: “Hike” is today’s prompt for my VOvember time behind the mic. When you search the word hike in public domain literature, a lot — a LOT — of Boy Scouts books come up. Books about the Boy Scouts, book by the Boy Scouts, books with Boy Scout characters in them. My choice of text for today is the latter of those. This is the opening of the book “Roy Blakeley’s Funny-Bone Hike” by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, published in 1923. #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceover
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Prompt: Hike
Content Source: “Roy Blakeley’s Funny-Bone Hike” by Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1923)
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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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Tom Swift aVOvember 6th: “Camera” is today’s prompt for my VOvember time behind the mic and it led me to a tale of the young Mr. Tom Swift, specifically “Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera; Or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures” by Victor Appleton. Here’s the end of chapter I. #VOvember #VOvember2024 #Voiceovernd His Wizard Camera
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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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