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I get really enthusiastic when some asks me about storytelling, and how important it is to your VO career to develop and hone your storytelling skills.

It’s essential.

So, every so often, I like to roll out items from this list from Emma Coats, who used to work at Pixar as a story artist, and who serially tweeted Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling.

I’ve been sharing with you one of these rules every so often, along with how you can apply each rule to your VO artistry.

Today, Rule 20… Continue Reading →

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Sometimes, we make things a lot harder for ourselves than we need to.

Sometimes, the solution to our problem is right in front of our eyes.

Or, right in our ears. Continue Reading →

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I had a chance to grab a few minutes of Accelerated Artist’s Jodie Bentley via Skype. I wanted to catch up on how she was doing with her audiobook career, and to chat about branding.

I had no idea what had been happening with her, with ACX. I was blown away. And her advice on branding? Awesome. Here’s the video. Continue Reading →

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You’ve heard me talk in class and at workshops about the importance of having backups for all of your work, especially long term projects like audiobooks.

In my Managing Clients and Projects class, I share with you my admittedly insanely overengineered backup process, but for right now, I want to share with you a backup method that a lot of people overlook.

Email.

What? Yep. Continue Reading →

Hey there!

I love to talk about it when some asks me about storytelling, and how important it is to your VO career to develop and hone your storytelling skills.

It’s essential.

So, every so often, I like to roll out items from this list from Emma Coats, who used to work at Pixar as a story artist, and who serially tweeted Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling.

I’m sharing with you one of these rules every so often, along with how you can apply each rule to your VO artistry.

Today, Rule 19… Continue Reading →

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I got a check in the mail today from an ad agency. For $34.54. It wasn’t a residual. It was a penalty payment.

All because a casting session was running behind. Why? Continue Reading →

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I love time-saving software.

And today, I’m going to save you time with all of your tweeting and facebooking, far beyond your current efforts to use these social networks to promote your VO practice.

We cover this in Mastering VO Social Networking, but here’s an overview.

How do you not have to post the same thing twice? Continue Reading →