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It's weird to speak into the void | JPF Daily
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Hello Reader It's all very well having access to smart phones and YouTube. All the tech in the world can't make you sound natural on camera - because it's just weird to speak into the void, all on your own. You press "record", you speak, then you press "stop". Afterwards, you watch the recording you've made and decide it's flawed for some reason - there's always some reason - and start all over again. Eventually you give up, meaning to do it another day. Which would be fine except that the same problem will arise again each time. Someone told me recently that his phone is full of videos like that. Not-so secret There's a simple way to sound natural on camera. ​Continue Reading...>>​ *** ​ Today's Picture Totally unrelated photo collage with digital paint, showing a magnolia on Finchley Road, NW11: ​ Till next time. JPF ​ ​ This is the DAILY edition of my newsletter​ ​ ​ |
John-Paul Flintoff
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📖 7 Books in 16 languages 📚 including: How To Change The World A Modest Book About How To Make An Adequate Speech.
Hello hello! Yesterday, I spent a whole therapy session talking about a book proposal I'm trying to write. It was quite helpful, actually. (To be clear: I'm not a psychotherapist. I was the client / patient.) This is the monthly newsletter from John-Paul FlintoffYou can unsubscribe any time, using the link below The book I want to write is about interviews. Not about dialogue, as such, but about what happens when dialogue is shared with some kind of audience. That's what makes it an...
Greetings Reader Have you stopped on a pavement, recently, to take a whiff of a neighbour's lilac? I recommend it. I wish you could smell the one on Crewys Road, between me and Childs Hill Park. It looks a bit like this: Ink, pencil and pen on A3 textured 250gsm paper. In other news: Using pictures to develop stories. I asked a recent International Booker Prize winner if I could do his portrait, along the lines of this one. He seems willing. Magnolia prints now available. (These prints are -...
Hello Reader Until you attempt to describe a still image, using actual words, it doesn't really mean much. Or, to put that the other way around: by describing a picture - actually choosing words and uttering them or writing them down - you can't avoid finding stories in it. I recorded a short video about this (see below), at the request of Helen at Arvon, to drum up interest in the upcoming online writing course. In the video you can see examples of the to-and-fro of words and pictures...