The title of this article hearkens back to my days as a software engineer. It’s common practice (and a pretty long standing tradition) to always start learning a new programming language by making the computer print out the seemingly innocuous “Hello, world!” text. It’s usually a pretty easy first start, and lets you very quickly dip your toes into something before really flexing the toolset to see what you can make it do. I usually use the same text when I am starting a project and need to write something and yet wasn’t really prepared to write anything of substance when the time came.
This is such a time.
I’ve been working for about two years on building up a voice over business. I have been steadily making progress, and this year I am proud to say I narrated four audiobooks! I have a fifth and a sixth in the pipeline and am shooting to complete the both of them before the end of the year. I’ve learned a ton from excellent teachers and coaches, and I am finally at a place where I feel confident that investing in a set of professional demos is my next step.
So I’m getting the website in order, and earlier today finished a coaching session with Gabrielle Nistico which was hugely productive. She gave me a bunch of great feedback on my website, which I am currently in the process of fully implementing. If you see a placeholder page here and there, it is simply because I have not had the time to fully dive into that particular section of the website yet; however, I have finished the Home Page, Contact Page, and now the Blog Page (or what I’m going to refer to as my journal) with real actual content.
I have a feeling the Demos Page will be next on my list despite the fact that you can listen to them on the Home Page, just so people don’t click on it and get confused when nothing is there. About Page will be next, and finally the Services Page where I can list and write little blurbs about all of the various facets of Voice Over that I am able to produce. Hopefully I’ll have all of these updated within the next week or so.
Famous last words.
For now, I’m just happy to get an initial journal entry written for the site to start filling out the Blog Page with content and now I can start promoting my website without needing to tell people that half of the stuff on the Home Page is just placeholder content with the rest of the site just a Template. I think my intention will be to write a weekly journal entry here. Most likely about a win, a failure, or something learned during that week. Hopefully someone finds these posts useful in the future, perhaps a budding Voice Actor in the future.
One can hope.