Tag: audience
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Six Guidelines to Improve and Safeguard Your Writing — Part I
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to present a session on “Using the Written Word to Improve Society” for the McConnell Arts Center’s Lifelong Learning Institute. As part of my presentation, I highlighted six guidelines on good writing that were based on my experiences as an editor for the Ohio Department of…
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My Interview with Lancelot
Having taught public speaking for over 20 years, I feel pretty confident expressing myself in front of a live audience. But I felt a tremor of nervousness when Brooklyn-based author and blogger Lancelot Schaubert offered to interview me in front of an online audience. For one thing, I wouldn’t see this audience, wouldn’t know how…
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“Bold Beginning” Taken with Book Launch
“Be favorable to bold beginnings,” a wise man (Ben Franklin, I think) once said. On May 10, I took a “bold beginning” with the launch of my YA novel, The Secrets We Carry: Journal of a Girl in Trouble. The book had actually been on the market since the end of March, but this “launch”…