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 10th: Certainly the prompt “heist” would lead me today to voicing a passage about criminal shenanigans. Nope – led to Sci-Fi instead (Yay!) thanks to a lesser-used meaning of the word. No complaints here. #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 9th: Booger. That’s a fun prompt, huh. It took me to a story called “Little Brother” which I’m really eager to read all of after voicing this little bit of it for today’s VOvember entry. #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221109 Prompt: Booger Content Source: “Little Brother”, by Cory Doctorow (Copyright 2007 by Cory Doctorow. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30142/30142-h/30142-h.htm
VOvember 8th: Today’s prompt of “Fairy” led to this little tale from the Isle of Man. It’s amazing just how many wee fairy stories are out there! My brief time behind the mic for this tonight brings you “The Fairy Banquet.” #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221108 Prompt: Fairy Content Source: “The Fairy-Banquet” from “The Fairy Mythology” by T. Keightley (1892) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41006/41006-h/41006-h.htm#Page_385
VOvember 7th: Today’s prompt of “Tempting” could have led so many scandalous directions! But, sadly, with no scandal at all, it instead led me to voice this bit of a book by E. P. Oppenheim. The scene: a moment of calm in a fight between two siblings. #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221107 Prompt: Tempting Content Source: “The Tempting of Tavernake” – E. Phillips Oppenheim (1912) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5091/pg5091-images.html
VOvember 6th: Today’s prompt was “ego” and of course Freud came to mind. I searched for other text, but decided to voice a single minute of Freud’s work anyway (which is about all I could take!) 🙂 #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Voiceover
VOvember 20221106 Prompt: Ego Content Source: “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” – S. Freud (1922) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35877/pg35877-images.html
VOvember 5th: One part prompt (“Snack”) + one part boringly translated fairy tale = today’s VOvember recording. Here’s the tail end of “The Cunning Old Man and the Demi” from the 1894 book “Georgian Folk Tales.” #VOvember #VOvember2022
VOvember 4th: I’m no camper, but I enjoyed voicing this bit of text from “Dorothy Dale’s Camping Days” by Margaret Penrose (today’s prompt was “camping”) in which the boys plan to rough it on the river – with Dorothy’s help. #VOvember #VOvember2022
VOvember 20221104 Prompt: Camping Content Source: “Dorothy Dale’s Camping Days” by Margaret Penrose (1911) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16091/pg16091-images.html
VOvember 3rd: So excited that today’s prompt of “Uh-oh” took me to the words “Uh? Oh” in the opening of the awesome Ray Bradbury story “Rocket Summer.” It only took three days this year for me to get to record some Sci-Fi in my daily VOvember project! Definitely happy about that! #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Bradbury
VOvember 20221103 Prompt: Uh-Oh Content Source: “Rocket Summer” by Ray Bradbury (1947) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64181/64181-h/64181-h.htm
VOvember 2nd: With the prompt of “gear” I figured my text today would be mechanically focused. Instead: the milliner’s realm! I give you the introduction to the 1879 book “Head-Gear, Antique and Modern” #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Inktober
VOvember 20221102 Prompt: Gear Content Source: “Head-Gear, Antique and Modern” by R. H. WADLEIGH (1879) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65316/pg65316-images.html
VOvember 1st: Many of my fab artist friends just finished “Inktober.” I’m following suit with my version: VOvember!
It’s so fun to realize it’s been five years since the idea for VOvember came to me — and fun to know it’s now an annual habit based on a desire to reinforce a daily creative habit — now one of exploring new text, new voices, new characters, new approaches — and 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 2022. The prompt: “Farm.” “Apple-Blossoms” from Farm Ballads, by Will Carleton (1874) #VOvember #VOvember2022 #Inktober
VOvember 20221101 Prompt: Farm Content Source: “Apple-Blossoms” from Farm Ballads, by Will Carleton (1874) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9500/9500-h/9500-h.htm