You may be able to tell I have some new links to the left there. Well, I’ve had a request from a friend in the past to mention new links in my actual blog so if they use an RSS application they can click the link to visit the page instead of viewing my page with a non-AdBlock’ing browser and click on my Google Ads so I can get money for hosting my websites 
Here goes…
The first new link is a blog by “me bestest ever pal” Mil! Go check out her site and read about her holidays, her feet (!) and doing stage dives at concerts.. along with her various reptilian minions.
The second is “Librivox“. It’s my latest hobby (or craze.. or whatever). Add it to the list! Let’s hope this one lasts longer than my others. I really think it will since I enjoy it so much already and I’ve only made two recordings so far. There’s an associated link to “Vox” in my Pages list on this site. There’s nothing there yet, but I aim to link to my various recordings in the future. Mostly after they have been completed formally.
LibriVox works in several different ways. You can read a whole story/book/poem yourself. You can be part of a book reading group where a book is chosen, you pick the chapters you wish to vocalise and upload and once everyone has completed their chapters, the story is stitched together and made available online for free. You can read a short poem and upload it along with everyone else. This way everyone gets to record their own interpretation .. around 20 readers. The first choice I made was to read two parts of a play called “This side of Paradise” by F Scott Fitzgerald. I played “Alec” and “Ryder Dawson”. I tried to make them sound different, but I’m not so sure.. particularly since this was my first recording. I’m sure it’ll improve with practise. I will link to the completed story as soon as a couple of other parts have been completed and the story stitched together. I will mention it on this blog and also link from the “Vox” page. Keep an eye out.
With my experience of volunteer radio announcing at three radio stations, plus vocal training at same and also a Voiceover class I took in Sydney for a while, I know this is my calling and it’s something I really enjoy doing and aim to do many many recordings.
