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Due to an unfortunate series of circumstances beyond my control, I have left my position as an editorial intern recently. The climate was too stressful and unemotional, the information was too much for five weeks, and I got to do pretty much everything except actual copyediting, which I wouldn't be able to do for an indefinite period of time anyway.

But am I sad? Not in the least!

Now, as I look for another new (preferably part-time) job, I go forward with confidence into the fruitful field of voiceover work, which is where I know I've belonged since I started impersonating Regis Philben at age 7 (and have expanded into more voices since then). I've been searching everywhere to find all sorts of voiceover training opportunities because, as multiple sources claim, it's good to have a variety of training experiences. Beyond this point, there are no guarantees, but that doesn't matter; my life is all about dreaming the impossible dream.

There is no going back...only going forward.

CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So do you have an actual support base, here?

Like, I aspire to be an author one day (despite never once havin put pen to paper this decade), but in the meantime I bust my ass just to survive, workin as many hours as theyll give me at the store.

Hell, even if I get published, I might still need to work at my store forever. Just one of them things.

You know anybody in the VO industry, bro?

If you want to do copy-editing, I'd suggest putting the message out that you need experience and you'd like to be a secondary editor for free, or just talk to people on fanfiction sites a lot and gather as much info elsewhere as you can. Experience is experience, and if you're willing to do it for free, that's that (don't work for someone else for free, internships are supposed to be a way to train new people into a specific company's methods and instead they're just used as a way to fob grunt work off onto a free labor source). If you're good enough to ask for pay, people will pay it as long as they know about you and you're pleasant to work with. Pleasant means different things for a lot of people, obviously.

And if you want to edit, I'd suggest writing short fiction or something similar so you get some experience dealing with your own work. Try to be as critical about it as possible, and take on everything that could be a flaw. If you're a good writer, you can be a good editor - just keep in mind it's not anyone's goal to sound like you. You just want to help them give their work as much punch and make as much sense as possible.

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Now, as I look for another new (preferably part-time) job, I go forward with confidence into the fruitful field of voiceover work, which is where I know I've belonged since I started impersonating Regis Philben at age 7 (and have expanded into more voices since then). I've been searching everywhere to find all sorts of voiceover training opportunities because, as multiple sources claim, it's good to have a variety of training experiences[/QUOTE]

Wwwwwoooooooouuuuulllllldddd you be interested in auditioning for a voice or two for a machinima I'm crafting?

[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1472124, member: 17381"]You know anybody in the VO industry, bro?[/QUOTE]

Not at this time, but I expect to make connections in the future given all the studios I've been researching.

I don't even own the right kind of microphone for the job, but I will work to earn it.[DOUBLEPOST=1403808378,1403808286][/DOUBLEPOST][QUOTE="ScottyMcGee, post: 1472156, member: 31048"]Wwwwwoooooooouuuuulllllldddd you be interested in auditioning for a voice or two for a machinima I'm crafting?[/QUOTE]

Would you accept a recording from a non-industry standard microphone (which does not actually record my voice as it sounds)?

If so, we can talk via PM to discuss the specifics you're looking for.

Hm. That's too bad.

Though I will say that if you're dealing in nonfiction, best not to edit your own work. You're less likely to pick up on your own errors since you know what it's supposed to say and will gloss over them. Fiction is an entirely different beast that I have almost no experience with, so I'll defer to AI/SD for that ;)

I like to think I'd be a decent editor. I catch errors in everything all the time on accident in books, games, even subtitles for film. Funny thing? I don't even try, It just bugs me. Of course, it's just little things, can't catch the more technical stuff.