017I – How Toastmasters Helped My Writing: An Interview with Stephanie Shackelford

WRITE NOW! Workshop Podcast: Write a Book, Change the World with Kitty Bucholtz · Jan 25, 2018 · 33m

Fantasy writer Stephanie Shackelford is our guest today explaining how Toastmasters helped her become a better writer. She realized one day that what she learned about making better speeches was spilling over into her writing.

While Stephanie has found that it's in the rewrite process that she's seen these improvements, I was listening to her and thinking about changes I could make in my plotting before or while writing the first draft.

An even more obvious choice is to see how your nonfiction might improve when you learn these speechwriting lessons. Join us and see what you think!

Stephanie…