My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book.
Enjoy!
The Podcast:
The Transcript:
This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for June 20, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This is from the Effective Public Speaking book.
Think about stories in three ways: standalone, linked, and nested stories.
Standalone stories describe a single situation to illustrate a specific point. They can also be anecdotes or examples. Many of the sidebars in this book are standalone stories that support the text on either side of the sidebar. In a presentation, a standalone story helps the audience understand the specifics of the problem.
Linked stories show how a situation evolves over time. Linked stories are common in experience reports or case studies. (See the section about experience reports for more details.) The first story explains the initial state. As the state changes, add another story, and then another. This mirrors Budrys' seven-point plot outline.
Nested stories are stories within a story.
The Video:
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