Opportunity taps - thing 1 of my 100 things

[darkemeralds]

I was out putting sheets on the clothesline this extremely fine spring morning when my across-the-street neighbor wandered over to be neighborly. We spoke for a few minutes about the WDOUY*, who resides and yips pretty much right outside her patio doors and is therefore even more irritating to her and her ten-month-old baby than he is to me.

We discussed the problem of neighborliness in the face of dog noise, and I mentioned that I was getting ready to replace my bedroom windows with more soundproof ones--not because the WDOUY (or anything else) disturbs my sleep, but because my bedroom is also my little fledgling recording studio.

"Oh, what are you recording?" Neighbor asked with interest.

I gave her my evolving elevator speech about audio versions of niche-market spiritual books, and she responded by telling me about a volunteer program she's involved with that needs voice-over work on videos they produce.

Hard to say what might come of such a casual exchange, but I let her know that I'm interested.

*Weiner Dog of Unending Yippitude

Comments

[darkemeralds]

Really? That's kind of cool.

At my first voice lesson a few weeks ago, the teacher of course asked me what I hoped to get out of this training. I was on the spot. I couldn't say, "Oh, you know...whatever" and hope to get anywhere. So I said I was recording audiobooks and wanted to improve my vocal stamina and range.

He barely even blinked. He works with non-singing voice actors all the time. He was curious and wanted to know more. I stumbled through a fledgling out-of-the-closet speech, and that was that. I've since sharpened up the speech, and it's starting to feel less dangerous--and meanwhile, the voice lessons are proceeding swimmingly.

Only one person so far has given me a negative response. That was an acting coach, by email, who warned me that I was getting into a very difficult field that would take years of training. I deleted her email and moved on.

But nobody's laughed at me or rolled their eyes or any of those things I traditionally fear.

[kis]

Have you come out to your family?

[darkemeralds]

Hee!

Well, yeah. They've been very supportive. :D