…repeat after me (…or AI needs me more than I need IT)
When the tablet became ubiquitous…when the ‘pad’ became compuls-teen-ory…when they could even feel like paper…did the book die? Nope…AI...
Matthew Lloyd Davies
"Because...telling a story is so much more important than just reading a book"
Improving the silence since 2014
Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Oct 29, 2021
- 1 min
Legless? Me?
A centipede was happy - quite Until a toad in fun Said “Pray, which leg moves after which?” This raised her doubts to such a pitch She...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Oct 7, 2021
- 1 min
Say that again…?
Repetition for effect…Repetition for effect…Mike Oldfield uses this to huge and theatrical effect in Tubular Bells…he tells an amazing...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Apr 23, 2021
- 1 min
Move forward by going backwards...
When trying to grow and improve it’s essential to see where you were...have you got rid of those bad habits, have you taken on new...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Jan 1, 2021
- 1 min
Well kick me up the proverbial xxx
I lost motivation...we all lose motivation...Covid is here to destroy motivation...DON'T LET IT...allow that New Year cliche...use the...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Dec 11, 2020
- 1 min
Go on...break those rules...
Punctuation...the bane of the narrators life...sometimes not enough, sometimes too much, sometimes non-existent...BUT...the point is that...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Dec 3, 2020
- 2 min
"Oi Mic!" I shouted..."Which One?" came the cry back.
A huge subject...microphones and which one is right for you...actually no...not a huge subject...a lot of gumph is hawked around about...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 25, 2020
- 1 min
Authors do the work for you
I often harp on about the 'character' of a book...it's one of my 'things'...this article came to me today...so beautifully explaining the...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 20, 2020
- 1 min
Assumption is the mother of all Headaches
It doesn't matter which end of the packet of Nurofen you open...it will be the wrong end...the end that has the instructions and warnings...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 19, 2020
- 1 min
Who on earth are you?
I sometimes don't know what my voice is...or at least...I used to not know what my voice is...the more books I record...the more I think...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 18, 2020
- 1 min
You are the master...
So you've got the kit, you've found a space, you can record...woohoo! but now you have to get that recording to fit with the audio...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 17, 2020
- 1 min
Hamilton...Oi..the driver not the musical
So Lewis Hamilton is the most successful Formula One driver of all time...a striking part of his work process is that he tries to...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 16, 2020
- 1 min
The Walrus of Lurve
Listen...we are not all blessed with the creamy smooth tones of a Barry White, some of us may sometimes sound more like a Bob Dylan...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 14, 2020
- 1 min
I , We, He, She,
I've been researching the differing levels of third person narration recently...it's a tough one to explain, almost as hard as the...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 13, 2020
- 1 min
On The Go...
...nowadays I hardly leave my booth let alone my house given that we’re all locked ‘down’...so imagine how excited I was to discover that...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 13, 2020
- 1 min
Everything counts in small amounts
So...to get some momentum and to try to archive as much as possible to my website from my not very old facebook coaching page...I will...
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Nov 13, 2020
- 1 min
Independence day...this is me.
Having tried to be faithful to all that so called 'social' media I have become rather disillusioned with it as my main vehicle of...
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