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Jay Speyerer - ArticlesJay Speyerer has been a writer, a speaker, and an educator for more than 30 years, successfully helping people achieve their goals in memoir writing, editing, media communication, and presentation skills.
Sounds of the SeasonPay particular attention to what impinges on your eardrums this season, and then record them or see what memories surface. Yancy's DogMemories can be buried deep, only to surface later. But something has to trigger them. Accidental MagicResearch is mundane and boring to a lot of people, whether it's for school essays, genealogy, business presentations, or writing in general, so they just want to get it over with. But in doing that, they don't open themselves up to serendipity. Squinting in the MoonlightIn fiction writing, we have a concept called willing suspension of disbelief. It amounts to a mutual agreement: the storyteller agrees to lie and the audience agrees to believe it. But the storyteller is still obligated not to do anything that would pull the reader/listener/viewer out of the story. Shug, Dub, and Dabbs: What's in a Company Name?Pick a name for your company and a screen name for yourself that communicate the image you want. Humor: not Everyone Can Hear the FunnyIn movies, there's music that both the characters and audience can hear, and there's music that only the audience can hear. The same is true with humor. Cultivating Organic HumorYou can be an effective speaker even if you don't have a sense of humor. On the other hand, if you have been blessed with a good sense of humor, that isn't enough to be a speaker; you also need a sense of timing. Doctor Who and Who Else?Dialogue has two overarching functions in fiction and nonfiction: reveal character and advance the plot. In movie and TV fiction, there has seldom been a truly lone hero. If he were alone, who would he talk to? The Look of AppraisalEye contact in communication can be dicey. A look can be an invitation or an invasion, a challenge or an appraisal. A lot of appraising goes on in Los Angeles.
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