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“Speaking” Means More Than Keynoting
A Manuscript is Not a Book: Ten Tips for Manuscript Preparation
A Pitch is Not a Mini-Website
About Speakipedia
About The Influencer Tools
Acknowledge the Secrets of Human Nature
Adynaton
After the Performance: The Meeting Debrief
Agitate the Problem, Not the Person!
AI Prompt Monster (Free)
Allegory
Alliteration
Amplify Your Audience
Anaphora
Anecdote
Antimetabole
Anyone Can Master Public Speaking
Aphorism
Aposiopesis
Are You a Lecturer or a Speaker?
Are You a Professional Speaker?
Asyndeton
Audience Inspector (Demo)
Autism and Speaking
AV Rider
Be BIG! Your Audience Has Forgotten How!
Beginnings and Endings
Beware of Overnight Success Programs
Blog
Blog is Short for Backlog
Blogging to Build a Speaker or Author Platform
Bloviate
Bold Speaking is Not Arrogant
Bombing on Stage is a Rite of Passage!
Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by Its Cover – Part 1
Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 2
Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 3
Book Cover Design: Moving from Screen to Printing Press
Book Cover Typefaces and Cover Design Horror Stories
Book Design – Revisiting Classic Layout for Print and EBooks
Book Design Basics – Use Hyphens for Justified Type
Book Design Basics – Dashes, Hyphens and Dots
Book Design Basics – Drop Caps and Initial Impressions
Book Design Basics Part 1: Margins and Leading
Book Design Basics Part 2: Optical Margins, Indents and Periods
Book Design Basics Part 3: Running The Numbers
Book Design Basics: Choosing a Book Font
Book Design Basics: Quotation Marks and Primes
Book Design Basics: Small Capitals – Avoiding Capital Offenses
Book Distributors: What’s in it for Publishers?
Book Giveaways: Are They Worth it?
Book Typography: The Crystal Goblet by Beatrice Warde
Break Up Your Speech with Dynamic Ramps
Cacophony
Can I Swear on Stage?
Care for Your Voice
Catachresis
Catechresis
Checkout-Result
Chiasmus
Choose the Right Microphone
Choose the Right Speaking Business Model for You
Circumlocution
Cliché-o-Meter (Demo)
Climax
Co-Publishing – Alternative Path or Another Trap for Writers?
Collaboration vs. Competition
Colloquialism
Commatose: the Oxford Comma, or Serial Comma
Consulting
Contact
Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, and the Nature of Truth
Cut the Clutter! Simplify Your Slides
Dave Who?
Demagogue
Dialogue or Die a Log!
Diatribe
Diction
Don’t Dis Anyone On Stage
Don’t Be a Prima Donna: A Lesson From Hank Jones
Don’t Eat the Microphone!
Don’t Let the Truth Ruin a Good Story
Don’t Read Too Much into Faces
Dynamics Means “Change”
Dysphemism
Elevator Pitch Witch (Demo)
Elocution
Encouragement for Those On The Path to Better Writing
Engage and Educate with Interactivity
English Pet Peeves
Epistrophe
Epithet
Epizeuxis
Essay Writing and The Art of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
Ethos
Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Euphemism
Euphony
Everyone Hates Their Own Voice. Get over it!
Exordium
Extemporize
Famous Speeches: Winston S. Churchill “We Shall Fight on the Beaches”
Famous Speeches: Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”
Famous Speeches: General Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country
Famous Speeches: John F. Kennedy “Inaugural Address”
Famous Speeches: Josephine Baker “March on Washington”
Famous Speeches: Lou Gehrig “Farewell to Baseball”
Famous Speeches: Patrick Henry “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”
Famous Speeches: Sojourner Truth “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Famous Speeches: Susan B. Anthony “Are Women Persons?”
Find the Funny in the Room
Find the Music in the Words
Find The Phrase that Pays
Fine Control Over Justified Text
Foreshadowing
Free E-Books by Dave Bricker
Gatekeepers and Self-Publishing
Get Over Your Fear of Selling
Get to the Gig … and Have a Backup Plan!
Googlify
Googlify
Green Screen Basics
Green Screen Setup with King Charles
Harangue
Heart Words
Hiding Behind the Microphone (Beware the Mic Drop)
Homiletics
How Do I Know How Long My Speech Will Be?
How Do I VideoConference with PowerPoint?
How Long Can You Pause?
How Long Does it Take to Build a Speaking Business?
How Many Spaces After a Period? Ending the Debate
How Stories Work in Your Mind
How Stories Work: The 4 Elements of Story
How to Create Your Speech Introduction
How to Evaluate a Speech
How to Get Over Your Fear of Public Speaking
How to Negotiate with a Speaker?
How to Produce Audiobooks with Amazon ACX
How to Sell from the Stage?
How to Structure a Speech Part 1: Start with the Transformation
How to Structure a Speech Part 2: Map Out the Journey
How to Structure a Speech Part 3: Create the Opening
How to Structure a Speech Part 4: Final Details.
How to Win Speaking Contests
How to Write a Humorous Speech
Hyperbaton
Hyperbole
I, We, and You
If You Want Money, Ask for Advice
If You Want to Speak More, Speak More!
Impromptu
Impromptu Speaking
In Public Speaking, Being Theatrical is Authentic!
Indie Publishers, Bookstores and Readers – the Indie Ecosystem
Influencer Dashboard Terms & Conditions
Interview Prep
Intromatic (Demo)
Irony
Is Your Story Big Enough?
Join Toastmasters, Even if You’re a Pro
Join your Global Speakers Federation Organization.
Journey Across the Stage
Juxtaposition
Keynotes by Dave Bricker
Let Your Audience in on Your Unspoken Thoughts
Litotes
Logos
Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Malapropism
Manage an Unruly Audience
Many Unhappy Returns – Think Outside the Bookstore
Maybe It’s What
You
Want But…
Message Magician (Demo)
Message Magician AI
Metaphor
Metonymy
Monologue
Monologues for Speakers
Monomyth
Motif
Murphy Was an Optimist! Prepare for Disaster
Narrate Your Own Book
Narrative Hook
Need Their Attention? Train Your Audience
Nervous? Don’t Picture the Audience Naked!
News Flash! Virtual Backgrounds Don’t Work
Newsletter
Non Sequitur
Nonfiction Writing and the One-sided Sales Conversation
Not Selling Books? Did you do the Math?
Open a Speech with Questions
Open Your Speech with a Startling Statistic
Open Your Speech With a Story
Oratorical
Oratory
Origin Oracle
Origin Oracle AI
Orotund
Oxymoron
Pacing
Page Layout: Illustrated Books and the Rule of Thirds
Panegyric
Paradox
Paralipsis
Parody
Paronomasia
Pathetic Fallacy
Pathos
Pause After Asking a Question
Pause After Telling a Joke
Pedantic
Periphrasis
Peroration
Persona
Pleonasm
Polyptoton
Polysyndeton
PowerPoint and the Bleeding Edge
PowerPoint: What Size Should My Slides Be?
Practice Big and Then Tone it Down
Privacy Policy
Prolepsis
Proposed Standards for Book Typography
Prosody
Protect Your Ideas: Copyright
Protect Your Ideas: Trademarks
Psalms and Speakers
Public Speaking Dymamics: Vary Your Emotional Intensity
Public Speaking Dymamics: Vary Your Tempo
Public Speaking Dymamics: Vary Your Volume
Public Speaking Dynamics: Speak With Your Face
Public Speaking: Dialogue or Die a Log
Public Speaking: Vary Your Pitch
Public Speaking: Words and Gestures
Publish a Book as a Business Card
Publishing a Book: Beware of Vanity Publishers
Publishing Advice – Practices & Principles
Publishing Scams and How they Work
Publishing Straight Talk
Pump Up Your Presentation with Sound Effects
Punch Up the Quality of Recorded Voiceovers with AI
Quintilian
Reality Checklist for Self-Publishers
Recover Your Audience After an Exercise
Red Herring
Register for Say H.I. to A.I.—The Human Intelligence Factor
Rehearse the Short Speech You Never Want to Give
Repartee
Respect Other People’s Intellectual Property
Rethinking Book Cover Design
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Question
Round-Robin Introductions
Running Overtime is a Rookie Mistake
Runny Noses, Sunspots and Thesis Writing
Satire
Scansion
Self-Publishers Should Not Be Self-Editors
Self-Publishing & Vanity Publishing: Confuse Them and Pay the Price
Self-Publishing IS Real Publishing-The Difference is up to You
Self-Publishing Scams: Keep the “Self” in Self-Publishing
Self-Publishing: Art or Business?
Self-Publishing? Get Real(istic)!
Separate Images From their Backgrounds with AI
Sex, Politics, and Religion on Stage
Should I Pay to Speak at an Event?
Should I Share My Slides?
Simile
Similitis
Simulating the Appearance of Traditional Print
Sing!
Solecism
Soliloquy
Speak Under the Influence: Find Your Mentors
Speaker Interviews
Speakers Bureaus
Speaking and the Hero’s Journey
Speaking is the Art of Fourth-Wall Theater.
Speaking Rockstar or Roadie?
Speaking Tip: Don’t Leave the Stage Until the Clapping Stops
Speaking Tip: Don’t Overfeed Your Audience
Speaking Vocabulary
Speaking with Notes
Speaking: Speak With Your Face
Speakipedia by Dave Bricker
Speakipedia Podcast # 11:
Will Bowen
Speakipedia Podcast # 13:
Rick Lozano
Speakipedia Podcast # 15:
Simone Vincenzi
Speakipedia Podcast # 16:
CJ Singh
Speakipedia Podcast # 20: Mark Entrekin
Speakipedia Podcast # 4:
Rosemary Ravinal
Speakipedia Podcast # 9:
David H. Lawrence the XVII
Speakipedia Podcast #1:
Bruce Turkel
Speakipedia Podcast #10:
Johann Callaghan
Speakipedia Podcast #12:
Errol Leandre
Speakipedia Podcast #14:
Andrea Gold
Speakipedia Podcast #17: Bill Stainton
Speakipedia Podcast #18: Pauline Butcher Bird
Speakipedia Podcast #19: Humphrey Bower
Speakipedia Podcast #2:
Kay Allison
Speakipedia Podcast #21: Ryan O’Shea
Speakipedia Podcast #22: Paula Rizzo
Speakipedia Podcast #23: Mitch Mitchem
Speakipedia Podcast #24: Captain Gene Flipse
Speakipedia Podcast #25: Rob Shanahan
Speakipedia Podcast #26: David Murray
Speakipedia Podcast #3:
Scott Lesnick
Speakipedia Podcast #5:
Neal Petersen
Speakipedia Podcast #6
Fabio Marques
Speakipedia Podcast #7:
Kelly Swanson
Speakipedia Podcast #8: Maureen Mahoney
Speech Annotator (Demo)
Speech Timing Calculator (Free)
Speechwriting: Alliteration
Speechwriting: Anaphora
Speechwriting: Come to Your Senses
Speechwriting: Cut THAT Fat
Speechwriting: Rhyme
Speechwriting: Start an End to Beginnings
Speechwriting: Structure vs. Flow
Speechwriting: The Magic of the One-Sentence Paragraph
Speechwriting: The Rule of Threes
Speechwriting: Who and That
Stage Lighting and House Lighting
Stand Up! You Don’t Need Those Crutches and Filler Words
Stay Relevant with “I Know What You’re Thinking!”
Stop Picking on POD
Store Your Beads in Your Jewelry Box
Stories Are Everywhere!
Stories to Never Tell: The Chauffeur Story
Stories to Never Tell: The Starfish Story
Storytelling Mistakes: “You Guys” and “You All”
Storytelling Mistakes: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It
Storytelling Mistakes: Pit of Despair Stories
Storytelling Mistakes: Poor Me Stories
Storytelling Mistakes: The Data Dump
Storytelling Wizard (Demo)
Straight Talk About Book Reviews
Straight Talk Speakers
Syllepsis
Syllogism
Syncrisis
Synecdoche
Tabs, Indents, and Margins: How to use the Tab Ruler
Tautology
Technical Issues? Keep the Room Engaged!
Teleprompters
Tell Your Story About the Audience
Terms and Conditions
Terms List
Test Member Page
Thank you for Registering to Say HI to AI!
The Call to Action
The Callback
The Fifth Wall
The Golden Rule of Storytelling
The Grammar of Book Design
The Imaginary Law of Perfection
The One-Sided Phone Call
The Perfect Book Sales Page
The Power Pause!
The Single Most Important Contribution to Publishing
The Singular They is Now Officially Correct
The Three Circles of Storytelling
There Are No “Levels”
Tips For Book Cover Design
TMA Stands for Too Many Acronyms!
Tone
Track Changes – The Essential Tool for Writers and Editors
Tricolon
Turn Nervous into Service
Twenty Most Popular Speaking Topics
Understatement
Use a Beautiful Model to Sell Your Message!
Use Your Emcee to Set Up Your Speech
Using Other People’s Content: Fair Use
Uxorious
Verbs: Spice Up Your Writing with Verbs that Rock
Verisimilitude
Vernacular
Virtual Coffee
Virtual Speaking: Speak to the Imaginary Room
Voices and Accents
Want a Traditional Publishing Contract? Do Your Homework
Want to Persuade? Use the CAST Call System
What if? Danger and Opportunity
What is Servant Leadership?
What Problem Do You Solve?
What Should I Do with My Hands When I Speak?
What to Do with Your Hands When You Speak
What Webcam is Best?
What’s a Professional Editor Worth?
Who’s Your Meeting Monitor?
Why Do Speakers Charge So Much?
Why Memorize Your Speech? Try The Suspension Bridge Method
Why You Need a Professional Editor
William Lyon Phelps: A Borrowed Book
Win the Debate: Don’t Insult Your Opponent
Win the Debate: Prepare Your Opening Statement
Win the Debate: Reframe the Position
Workshops by Dave Bricker
Writing Ergonomics: Avoiding Injury at Your Desk
Writing is Design – Writing Dialogue: He Said. She Said.
Writing is Design: Avoid Bland Pronouns and Boring Verbs
Writing is Design: Avoid Writing Clichés for Better Prose
Writing is Design: Boring Words & Generic Descriptions – Not Nice!
Writing is Design: Eliminate THAT Fat From Your Writing
Writing is Design: Shy Away from Timid and Passive Writing
Writing is Design: Two-Word Writing Clichés
You Never Know Who’s in the Audience
You’re Always On-stage; Walk the Walk!
Your Accent is Charming!
Zeitgeist
Zeugma
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