A daily exercise in the month of November to celebrate and reinforce a practice of voiceover creativity. }|{ "Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits." ~Twyla Tharp
VOvember 4th: Of course today’s prompt of “sparkle” led to a book about champagne. Great fun for my VOvember recording today. Here’s 60 seconds of it. #VOvember #VOvember2023 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221104 Prompt: Sparkle Content Source: “Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines” by Henry Vizetelly (1879) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20889
VOvember 3rd: “Massive” was the prompt for today’s VOvember recording, and it led to a 1950s sci-fi story from Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine. (And we know how much I love voicing ’50s sci-fi!) Here’s 72 seconds of it. #VOvember #VOvember2023 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221103 Prompt: Massive Content Source: “Big Ancestor” by F. L. Wallace (1954) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50969
VOvember 2nd: Today’s prompt of “rush” led me to a fun old book, “He Knew Lincoln, and Other Billy Brown Stories” from 1907 by Ida M. Tarbell. Here’s a sliver of it for my VOvember daily exercise. #VOvember #VOvember2023 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221102 Prompt: Rush Content Source: “He Knew Lincoln, and Other Billy Brown Stories” by Ida M. Tarbell (1907) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49822
VOvember 1st: Many of my groovy artist friends just finished “Inktober.” I’m following suit with my own version of the fun and creativity: VOvember!
Been doing my VOvember creation for several years now, and I love that it has become an annual habit 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 2023. The prompt: “Fire.” The text, from “How Raven Brought Fire to the Indians” from Canadian Fairy Tales, by Cyrus MacMillan (1922) #VOvember #VOvember2023 #Inktober
VOvember 20221101 Prompt: Fire Content Source: “Canadian Fairy Tales” by Cyrus MacMillan (1922) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36241
VOvember 30th: The final VOvember post of ’22. 🙁 But a delightful one, as today’s prompt of “Gargoyle” led me to voice a fun little bit of verse from “The Mythological Zoo” by Oliver Herford. 🙂 Enjoy! #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221130 Prompt: Gargoyle Content Source: “The Mythological Zoo” by Oliver Herford (1912) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23749
VOvember 27th: Some story of sea life is where I thought today’s prompt of “Scallop” would lead my VOvember time behind the mic. Instead: the shape! Here’s a bit from Hawthorne’s 1846 “Mosses from an Old Manse.” #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221127 Prompt: Scallop Content Source: “Mosses from an Old Manse” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1846) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512
VOvember 23rd: A trail covered with pine needles and a stage coach in the night are where today’s prompt of “Eagle” led my VOvember time behind the microphone tonight. From “Snow-Bound at Eagle’s” by Bret Harte (1885) #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 22nd: Today’s prompt of “Forget” led my VOvember time at the mic today to a little poetry with a side of attitude. Here’s “Farewell.” From “Autumn Leaves” by Ardelia M. Barton (1908) #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221122 Prompt: Forget Content Source: Farewell. From “Autumn Leaves” by Ardelia M. Barton (1908) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63551
VOvember 20th: “Verena in the Midst: A Kind of a Story” (1920) is where today’s prompt of “kind” led me for my VOvember time behind the mic. This is what overplayed pretension sounds like. 😉 #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221120 Prompt: Kind Content Source: “Verena in the Midst: A Kind of a Story” by E. V. Lucas (1920) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63551
VOvember 18th: “Empty” is today’s prompt, and it led me by the hand (and by the microphone) to join Holmes and Watson in a very, very dark house. Here’s a bit from “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” (1905). #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221118 Prompt: Empty Content Source: “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1905) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/108/