Comments on: Anything to Avoid Writing http://julesritter.com/2008/05/anything-to-avoid-writing/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: penelope http://julesritter.com/2008/05/anything-to-avoid-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-264 penelope Wed, 28 May 2008 18:34:20 +0000 http://julesritter.com/?p=374#comment-264 At the beginning I had the same idea about blogs and I started to put some parts from my book, soon my publisher told me I cannot do that because I have no more the rights... so I had already made some friends who I liked very much i carry on writing just for them to keep a contact and I really enjoy very much. To say the truth I had never thought making friends and enjoying chatting with them...(having enough real friends around it was the last thing that I had in my mind) At the beginning I had the same idea about blogs and I started to put some parts from my book, soon my publisher told me I cannot do that because I have no more the rights… so I had already made some friends who I liked very much i carry on writing just for them to keep a contact and I really enjoy very much. To say the truth I had never thought making friends and enjoying chatting with them…(having enough real friends around it was the last thing that I had in my mind)

]]> By: John Norris http://julesritter.com/2008/05/anything-to-avoid-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-266 John Norris Tue, 27 May 2008 02:37:58 +0000 http://julesritter.com/?p=374#comment-266 Dear Jules <strong>Speaking in public</strong> Nadia is right that just about everyone - apart from a handful one doesn't necessarily want to hear - is worried by the prospect of speaking in public. It is hardest when one begins, and it does get better with practice. It took me about ten years to evolve a style that could work, by trial and error, as a trade union officer and Green Party campaigner. The sting in the tail was to discover after I had a stroke a few years ago that I had to learn how to do it all over again, now with a speech impediment! What I think one has to accept is that the price of getting feedback on one's ideas is presenting them in a way which is understood by others. I may not be that good at it nowadays, but there really is no alternative to giving it one's best shot, whatever field of endeavour one is in. John Norris Dear Jules

Speaking in public

Nadia is right that just about everyone – apart from a handful one doesn’t necessarily want to hear – is worried by the prospect of speaking in public. It is hardest when one begins, and it does get better with practice. It took me about ten years to evolve a style that could work, by trial and error, as a trade union officer and Green Party campaigner.

The sting in the tail was to discover after I had a stroke a few years ago that I had to learn how to do it all over again, now with a speech impediment!

What I think one has to accept is that the price of getting feedback on one’s ideas is presenting them in a way which is understood by others. I may not be that good at it nowadays, but there really is no alternative to giving it one’s best shot, whatever field of endeavour one is in.

John Norris

]]> By: Nadia http://julesritter.com/2008/05/anything-to-avoid-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Nadia Mon, 26 May 2008 12:14:31 +0000 http://julesritter.com/?p=374#comment-265 Dear Jules, I promise if you put advertising on this site we won't even notice. Do bear in mind that in this society that we live in, the value of things is often the price you put on them, so please feel free to make buckets of money with your blog. And your book. And any magazine articles you might sell. And a little trick to be able to speak easily in public: (a) either just remember that EVERYONE'S nervous speaking in public or (b) imagine your audience as giant carrots/tomatoes/rabbits... when you've finished mentally giggling you'll be fine. Dear Jules, I promise if you put advertising on this site we won’t even notice.

Do bear in mind that in this society that we live in, the value of things is often the price you put on them, so please feel free to make buckets of money with your blog. And your book. And any magazine articles you might sell.

And a little trick to be able to speak easily in public: (a) either just remember that EVERYONE’S nervous speaking in public or (b) imagine your audience as giant carrots/tomatoes/rabbits… when you’ve finished mentally giggling you’ll be fine.

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