{"id":188,"date":"2012-04-05T20:34:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2013-07-24T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:36:09","slug":"the-artists-way-for-the-voiceover-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/the-artists-way-for-the-voiceover-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist’s Way, for the voiceover artist"},"content":{"rendered":"
I\u2019d like to talk about The Artist\u2019s Way \u2013 the book that changed my life.\u00a0 This book is completely relevant to the work that you are pursuing: trying to be the best voice over artist you can be.\u00a0\u00a0 And yes, this book will also better your life beyond just improving your voice over performances.<\/div>\n
The Artist\u2019s Way, written by Julia Cameron, is peppered with inspiring quotes by the likes of Emerson:\u00a0 \u201cWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us,\u201d and Rumi:\u00a0 \u201cInside you there\u2019s an artist you don\u2019t know about\u2026.(just) say YES quickly\u2026.!\u201d<\/div>\n
But to reduce the book to a grouping of cliche inspiring quotes is to do it an injustice.\u00a0 These quotes are a mere decoration on the sides of the pages.\u00a0 The real meat of the book is a 12-week layout of homework assignments and activities to engage in.\u00a0 We are inspired to sign-on to this commitment by nothing less than sheer conviction after only reading a few introductory pages on what it means to be an artist of any kind, and how easy it is to achieve this if we: stop listening to our inner critic, turn off the TV, and start living outside our comfort zones a bit more (which is actually more fun than scary).\u00a0 Cameron even seduces us into daily activities such as \u201cmorning pages\u201d and also weekly \u201cartist\u2019s dates.\u201d\u00a0 The former asks us to write 3 pages of text each morning when our brains are clean and fresh\u00a0 – to write with abandon, knowing you will show it to no one.\u00a0 This writing exercise is meant to instill in us a form of expression that is free from censorship or criticism, one that can easily translate to things way beyond the medium of writing, such as\u2026.painting, acting, voice over work!\u00a0 I often hear students \u201cthinking\u201d too much when they are reading a script.\u00a0 They are thinking they didn\u2019t put the right amount of inflection on a word or the right amount of pause between sentences.\u00a0 This is the kind of stuff that the Artist\u2019s Way means to squash.\u00a0 And does.<\/div>\n
How did the Artist\u2019s Way affect me, a casting director and creative-without-a-cause civilian?\u00a0 Oh such fun and random ways.\u00a0 I cleaned out all the black clothing in my closet.\u00a0 I thought, I can do better.\u00a0 I discovered I actually have a \u2018style\u2019 in home d\u00e9cor (Victorian modern earthy?!) and stopped taking in people\u2019s furniture discards and started trolling the flea markets for new treasures that suited the new me.\u00a0 I started making jewelry.\u00a0 I had more fun with directing actors (even resorting to using astrology once in a while, \u201cread it again, but with a bit more Aquarian lightness, ok?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 —-\u201cwhat?\u201d\u00a0 ).\u00a0 I developed a strange and exciting deeper connection to plant life.\u00a0 I started homing in on \u201ccoincidences\u201d and seeing them for what they could have been \u2013 manifestations of my deepest desires and new found outward expression of them.\u00a0 I could go on and on, but what would be more fun is hearing what this book does for you.\u00a0 I invite any and all responses.\u00a0 Happy reading.\u00a0 Get ready for your world to turn upside-down in the best way you can imagine!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d like to talk about The Artist\u2019s Way \u2013 the book that changed my life.\u00a0 This book is completely relevant to the work that you are pursuing: trying to be the best voice over artist you can be.\u00a0\u00a0 And yes, this book will also better your life beyond just improving your voice over performances. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-over-gurus-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}