This will be a follow up post to one I wrote on March 13th. That title was Take It Slow.

The title of this post is Let it Go (obviously enough). So just exactly what does that mean? About a bazillion things actually.

1) First thing’s first: when you make a mistake, let it go. If you’re recording in your studio and you keep making the same mistake over and over (not only might you need to refer to my last post) but you need to just stop, take a breath, grab a sip of water (you have it in your hand don’t you?) and then keep on truckin’.

2) When you’ve just finished your eleventy-seventh audition and you’ve just gotten you’re eleventy-eighth rejection notice… that’s right… let it go! The one thing that is not too pleasant about being a VO person (the average kind, anyways) is that you don’t always win. I read in James Alburger’s The Art of Voice Acting (a GREAT book, by the way) that you don’t win everyone, but that doesn’t mean you are a terrible voice actor, it just means there was someone else who had the voice that the client had in their heads. Sometimes (and this is a sometimes I hope you never experience) you get the call to do a gig and it NEVER happens. This has happened to me twice. I just had to… you guessed it… let it go, even though it hurt like heck.

3) You might think to yourself, “Man, this takes a lot of money to get a VO career started!” Yeah it takes a little (less if you read my previous posts!) but you have to… say it with me… let it go! Unfortunately, in business (that’s what we are in, by the way, is business) you have to spend money before you can make money. No exceptions, especially in our line of work.

This is just part one of this post. I still have some juicy morsels of knowledge brewing in the pot of my mind. Subscribe to have updates to the blog delivered to your e-mail! You can do so in the new and improved right hand column.

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