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2025.09: Practice Your Delivery Twice

My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. My editor is almost done with his first pass. That’s the pass that offers feedback on the book’s organization. Then, I get to fix everything. Then, he’ll copyedit the manuscript and I can finish. Getting closer! As for the tags here and the previous […]

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2025.08 Fiction: Historical Mystery

Because I’m trying very hard to avoid starting another book before I finish Effective Public Speaking, my podcast this week is from a fiction story: historical mystery, to be precise. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for February 28, 2025, where I read an

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2025.07 Fiction: A Fine Hand

My podcast this week is the opening of a historical short story. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for February 21, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from a short story titled “A

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2025.05 Fiction: More Than a Little Misdirection

My podcast this week is from a fiction story I need to finish. (Today!) Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for January 31, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from a short story,

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025.04 Volunteer to Teach Something

My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. (That book is with my editor.) Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for January 24, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from

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2025.02 Start Your Public Speaking with Internal Presentations

My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for January 10, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress. This is from the Effective Public Speaking book. Start

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2025.01 Pick Several People to Make Eye Contact With

After a year of writing my 60 Seconds of Writing WIP, I finally realized the titles for these posts were not helpful at all. So instead of calling these 60 Seconds of Writing WIP, I’m trying a new titling scheme: the year, the number, and a name that describes this section. You might wonder about

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2024.50 Larger Audiences Need More Examples

My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. I just realized I need another couple of sections, but I might be ready for technical review. Enjoy! The Podcast: The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is Johanna’s 60 Seconds of Writing WIP for December 27, 2024, where I read an excerpt of

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