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Speakipedia Podcast #33: Lucille Ossai

Speakipedia Posted on January 3, 2025 by juanJanuary 8, 2025
Speakipedia Podcast #33: Lucille Ossai

Transcript:Ā  Dave Bricker (00:02) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakipedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk, smart strategies, and amazing stories from … More ā˜›

Speakipedia Podcast 30: Patricia Fripp

Speakipedia Posted on November 24, 2024 by juanDecember 4, 2024
Speakipedia Podcast 30: Patricia Fripp

Transcript Dave Bricker (00:07) Want to expand your speaking and storytelling skills and grow your influence business? This is Speakipedia Media brought to you by speakepedia.com. I’m your host, Dave Bricker, bringing you straight talk and smart strategies from visionary … More ā˜›

The Singular They is Now Officially Correct

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
The Singular They is Now Officially Correct

Find your favorite writer and give them this message: They no longer have to mire their writing down with awkward “his or her” and “he or she” and “he/she” usages. According to The Washington Post, the singular they/them has been … More ā˜›

Publishing Advice – Practices & Principles

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Publishing Advice – Practices & Principles

The following publishing advice is based on my own experiences and those of my clients. I hope you find it valuable and encouraging, even if it changes your expectations. I’ve written and published 12 books. I’ve guided many remarkable people … More ā˜›

Self-Publishing Scams: Keep the “Self” in Self-Publishing

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Self-Publishing Scams: Keep the ā€œSelfā€ in Self-Publishing

Here’s an addendum to Publishing Scams and How they Work. I wonder why so many authors, after spending thousands of hours working on a book, fail to conduct a few critical hours of research that will save them thousands of … More ā˜›

Tabs, Indents, and Margins: How to use the Tab Ruler

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Tabs, Indents, and Margins: How to use the Tab Ruler

This article explains the tab ruler found on every word processor and typesetting application. Understanding the simple and elegant split ruler and tab functions opens up a world of formatting opportunities. Digital typesetting and word processing inherited a number of … More ā˜›

English Pet Peeves

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
English Pet Peeves

Discussions of English Language pet peeves provide an entertaining forum for the expression of ire. In fact, if a ā€œpetā€ is something we cherish, and a ā€œpeeveā€ is something that annoys us, ā€œpet peevesā€ are what we love to hate. … More ā˜›

Commatose: the Oxford Comma, or Serial Comma

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Commatose: the Oxford Comma, or Serial Comma

The Oxford comma, or serial comma is a subject of constant debate among writers. Do we need that comma before the last item on a list? Even without a list, the comma is an important determiner of meaning. Time to … More ā˜›

Encouragement for Those On The Path to Better Writing

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Encouragement for Those On The Path to Better Writing

So many writers get discouraged. This stinks. I quit. Others are overconfident. They’ve always had “a gift for words” so they fail to submit their prose to an editor‘s scrutiny. I recently shared an email exchange with an editing client … More ā˜›

The Grammar of Book Design

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
The Grammar of Book Design

Are images analogous to words? Is what makes a sentence sound “right” the same thing that makes an image “pop” or a jazz solo “burn?” The similarities are noteworthy but the differences are important. Just as the best of writers … More ā˜›

Writing is Design: Avoid Bland Pronouns and Boring Verbs

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Writing is Design: Avoid Bland Pronouns and Boring Verbs

As a graphic designer, I see numerous parallels between the values that create engaging imagery and the values that create engaging prose. So many designs fail because the designer arranged elements on a page without questioning their purpose, hierarchy, or … More ā˜›

Writing is Design: Eliminate THAT Fat From Your Writing

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Writing is Design: Eliminate THAT Fat From Your Writing

The word “that” is often abused. “That” is a perfectly useful pronoun but it’s often the useless fat that slows down an otherwise good sentence. I think that you and I need to talk. I told my readers that I … More ā˜›

Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – Part 2

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 14, 2024
Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover – PartĀ 2

Part 1 of Book Cover Design: Judging a Book by its Cover critiqued “professional” covers taken from Amazon’s Editor’s choice list. Read that article first as it provides background for this one. The article looked at design elements that worked … More ā˜›

What’s a Professional Editor Worth?

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
What’s a Professional Editor Worth?

What do you think a professional editor‘s pay scale should be? Assume that a proofreader would be at the bottom of the scale and a developmental/line editor would be at the top. An examination of the work editors perform sheds … More ā˜›

Why You Need a Professional Editor

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Why You Need a Professional Editor

After completing the final draft of a manuscript for my fifth book, I wanted a reality check. I hired a professional editor and learned something important about self-publishing. No matter how capable you are as a writer and proofreader, you … More ā˜›

Proposed Standards for Book Typography

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Proposed Standards for Book Typography

The word processor has placed new burdens on writers to understand how to use italics, big and small capitals, dashes, hyphens, initials, etc. Writers who do their own typesetting often produce mediocre results. Likewise, trade publishers sacrifice typographic aesthetics when … More ā˜›

Book Design Basics: Small Capitals – Avoiding Capital Offenses

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dave BrickerJune 13, 2024
Book Design Basics: Small Capitals – Avoiding Capital Offenses

Use of Small Capitals—uppercase characters designed at lowercase scale—is one aspect of writing and book design that isn’t taught in grammar school. We all know every sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period. We all should … More ā˜›

Speechwriting: Who and That

Speakipedia Posted on January 19, 2024 by Dave BrickerApril 26, 2024
Speechwriting: Who and That

A common mistake is to confuse ā€œwhoā€ and ā€œthatā€ —another common misuse of the word ā€œthat.ā€ She’s the girl that loves me. My boss is the only one that cares about the late project. I’m looking for the man that … More ā˜›

Speechwriting: Cut THAT Fat

Speakipedia Posted on January 19, 2024 by Dave BrickerApril 26, 2024
Speechwriting: Cut THAT Fat

ā€œThatā€ is often useless fat that slows down an otherwise elegant sentence. Fortunately, misuse of ā€œthatā€ is one of the easiest writing patterns to find and evaluate.   I think that you and I need to talk. I told my … More ā˜›

Jazz and the Dangerous Magic of Creative Flow

Speakipedia Posted on June 13, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

Perhaps you’ve experienced flow writing. You sit down, watch your fingers tap away at the keyboard, and wonder, Where did that come from? Did I write that? That’s really good!Ā  Sometimes the experience of flow can be as simple and … More ā˜›

How Good is AI at Writing Stories?

Speakipedia Posted on May 30, 2023 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

  AI Storytelling – Is it any good? I entered a simple prompt into ChatGPT. Yes, I could have been more specific about what I wanted—better prompts make for better output from the AI—but my intention was to analyze the … More ā˜›

Sound Advice for Writers & Publishers

Speakipedia Posted on July 26, 2022 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

The following advice on writing and publishing is based on my own experiences and those of my clients. I hope you find it valuable and encouraging, even if it changes your expectations. I’ve written and published twelve books, and I’m … More ā˜›

Storytelling and The Avant Garde

Speakipedia Posted on December 9, 2019 by Dave BrickerJuly 1, 2024

An accomplished jazz musician, educator, and friend pointed out that too many virtuosic young players blow a lot of noisy notes with fire and conviction, ignore the structure of the music, and brand themselves as ā€œavant garde.ā€ To his ears, … More ā˜›

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