{"id":303,"date":"2013-10-18T16:15:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2013-10-18T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:15:59","slug":"filling-the-voiceover-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/filling-the-voiceover-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Filling the Voiceover Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find blogging to be exhausting.\u00a0 It\u2019s work.\u00a0 Absolutely grueling work.\u00a0 I love to cook.\u00a0 I\u2019m actually pretty good at it.\u00a0 I will never make money as a food blogger.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I like to COOK.\u00a0 Not write.\u00a0 The same goes for voice over coaching.\u00a0 I love to coach.\u00a0 I love to work with students and see them start with head scratching and cluelessness and then watch the glorious light bulb come on, watch the magic come out, watch the PERSON emerge.\u00a0 That\u2019s\u2019 what voiceover or any acting medium is all about in the end anyway.\u00a0 Letting STUFF out.\u00a0 Getting out of your own way so the characters can come through unimpeded.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t like writing about it!\u00a0 So, I stalled this morning and looked at other peoples\u2019 voiceover blogs instead.\u00a0 That inspires me.\u00a0 There are people that clearly seem to enjoy doing this.\u00a0 And you should read them.<\/p>\n<p>You might identify with this blog article called <a href=\"http:\/\/jcdunnvox.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/31\/10-valuable-distractions\/\">10 Valuable Distractions<\/a>, about taking some time to do something ELSE.\u00a0 I write a lot about voiceover training, voiceover technique, voiceover script analysis, etc.\u00a0 You must spend a lot of time yourself emerged in voiceover training and marketing and research.\u00a0 I have blogged several times about \u201cfilling the well.\u201d\u00a0 I have discussed the absolute importance of living a rich and creative life, or else.\u00a0 Or else you are in danger of having NOTHING to bring to the table.\u00a0 To the read.\u00a0 The read will be empty.\u00a0 You must stop to fill the well.\u00a0 I\u2019ve recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=188\">The Artists Way in a past Voiceover Gurus blog<\/a> as a means of doing this many times as well.\u00a0 This book will kick you in the ass till your creative juices are spilling out all over the place.\u00a0 It\u2019s a brilliant book.\u00a0 It\u2019s a brilliant way to take a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find blogging to be exhausting.\u00a0 It\u2019s work.\u00a0 Absolutely grueling work.\u00a0 I love to cook.\u00a0 I\u2019m actually pretty good at it.\u00a0 I will never make money as a food blogger.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I like to COOK.\u00a0 Not write.\u00a0 The same goes for voice over coaching.\u00a0 I love to coach.\u00a0 I love to work with students [&hellip;]<\/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-303","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\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}