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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?
• Code with AI Workshop
• 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
• Intelliprompter
• 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 Dating App
• 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 #27: Marilyn August
• Speakipedia Podcast #28: Rich Hopkins
• Speakipedia Podcast #29: Susan Ford Collins
• Speakipedia Podcast #3:
  Scott Lesnick
• Speakipedia Podcast #31: Tamsen Webster
• Speakipedia Podcast #32: Lois Creamer
• Speakipedia Podcast #5:
  Neal Petersen
• Speakipedia Podcast #6
  Fabio Marques
• Speakipedia Podcast #7:
  Kelly Swanson
• Speakipedia Podcast #8: Maureen Mahoney
• Speakipedia Podcast 30: Patricia Fripp
• Speakipedia Timer Help
• 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
• Swim With Whales
• 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