Life Stories Mine And Others
Just a blog of my Journey to becoming a known Narrator. Daily updates.
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Anger
I am a mom and wife, who has just recently learned of the life of Narration. I love reading and read to my kids daily. I get into characters. I also like my me time and enjoy books/from cooking books to self development, children book and faith books. I recently found out that I can Narrate and get paid. What? yeah that was my response too.. lol. So here I am beginning my journey and praying for a break.
Sunday, October 4, 2020
PAIN
I am a mom and wife, who has just recently learned of the life of Narration. I love reading and read to my kids daily. I get into characters. I also like my me time and enjoy books/from cooking books to self development, children book and faith books. I recently found out that I can Narrate and get paid. What? yeah that was my response too.. lol. So here I am beginning my journey and praying for a break.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
you are your best motivator and cheerleader
Hello Everyone!
Thank you for being on this journey with me.
My name is Elizabeth. Family calls me Ely and friends call me Liz.
I decided to do this blog because frankly I need a journal. So why not?
So I was looking for ways to school my kids and work. Hubby got laid off from work because the environment at his job was not taking proper hygiene protocal. He does essential driving jobs now. but the amounts vary day to day. Our income has decreased. And so I was on indeed looking for work and came accross narrating. What? I said. So I began my research and googled what good narrating sites. I came accross ACX. They are broker that Authors pay a fee to, to find Narrators.
So here I am thinking I need some special skill and decide to look into what I need. Ladies and gentlemen lo and behold it was a free sign up and they walked you through profile set up. I was kinda a dummy so I quite didnt get it and where to go it was all so new to me. So I went to you tube and search and researched and came accross a you tube video that was on point. Vannessa Bailey. Let me tell you this woman has got talent and skills and explains it so clearly, so with Vanessa on my side I was able to do my profile professionally.
The next day I got messages of people who heard my samples and liked my voice. They wanted me to audition for their books. I got an offer from this publishing outside of ACX directly to my email asking me if I was willing to do a paid by the hour finished title. I was like oh my word! Yes I will take it. I am thanking God for this opportunity. So I got a title to read. Well I can read that was the simple part. But Guess what? Yup you guessed it. I didn't know all the Rules that came with the volume and the db and the regulations. I was so confused. I was so frustrated. The samples were just of my voice so they didnt need all the audio formats. But now, I landed a job and so I had to do it right? I mean I couldnt just drop it.
So after accepting the email offer. I watched video after video on you tube. I still couldnt find any samples on how to do these formats. All I knew was that the Audacity app was best to record. so I downloaded the app and opened it up. Oh my word, like ugh seriously I don't understand this software. I was determined. I researched and studied and practiced and learned how to record and edit copy paste the basics. The script was only 5 chapters so it took me a day to do right? NO! it didn't it took me like a week to keep getting it right. The Author was so nice the first copy I sent her. I was too low. Like no sound she couldnt hear a thing. That was because when I recorded I used my usb headphones so it was which completely changed my audio. Then she asked me if I can fix the audio that maybe its too compressed. So now she is talking mechanics of Audio with me ; definitions I know nothing about. So here I am dealing with my kids all day. Putting them to bed and you guessed it. Studying. I looked up videos, definitions, and more and more about what to do. Finally I come accross this God sent video this lady begins to talk about macros. So dummy me, I do not know what this talk is. So I look at it in audacity and just follow the steps in the video. Lo and behold. It was the secret to the formats and how to get a plug in that analyzes the work for you to make sure that the regulations specified pass the publishing companies guidelines. So after mistake and mistake I finally after almost a week of emailing back in forth copies of my audios with total mistakes. I'm happy to say I learned to work Audacity and work the basic controls that allowed me to complete my book. All regulations followed and accepted. So now Tomorrow I am waiting for Anne. (not her real name) to get a hold of me to see if I get the contract offered for me to be a Narrator for their publishing company. Tomorrow I will update .. Good night and thank you for reading. -Elizabeth
I am a mom and wife, who has just recently learned of the life of Narration. I love reading and read to my kids daily. I get into characters. I also like my me time and enjoy books/from cooking books to self development, children book and faith books. I recently found out that I can Narrate and get paid. What? yeah that was my response too.. lol. So here I am beginning my journey and praying for a break.

