Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Learn the Secrets of a Blogger! All This and More!



  • How READING YOUR WRITING ALOUD IS DIFFERENT than someone reading your words online
  • My FIRST TIME READING MY WORK ALOUD!
  • HOW IT FEELS TO AUDITION for Listen To Your Mother and why it’s WORTH A LONG DRIVE if you don’t have one in your backyard
  • Why not to let FEAR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING hold you back
  • TIPS FOR AUDITIONING for Listen To Your Mother and how it CHANGED MY LIFE
  • MY plan for PITCHING YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC RADIO and why it’s important to BE PREPARED and TIMELY
Information about how and when to PITCH YOUR LIVE STORYTELLING TO THE MOTH including WHICH CELEBRITY I HAD QUAIL EGGS WITH !
  • How I landed MANY OTHER SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES
  • Listen To Your Mother Show details from Carisa Miller, co-producer of LTYM Portland, about WHO CAN AUDITION and HOW TO AUDITION for Listen To Your Mother
  • Whether you can AUDITION FOR MORE THAN ONE SHOW and/or IN SUCCESSIVE YEARS
  • Answers about the TYPE OF PIECE you should audition with/read for the show including TOPIC, LENGTH and more
  • How the Listen To Your Mother shows are CAST and HOW MANY CAST MEMBERS are selected in each city
  • Carisa’s TIPS FOR AUDITIONING for Listen To Your Mother
  • Why Auditioning for Listen To Your Mother is such a GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR BLOGGERS
  • Carisa’s MAIN TAKEAWAY from being involved in Listen To Your Mother
  • Why BEING AN AUDIENCE MEMBER for a Listen To Your Mother show is an amazing experience and HELPS YOUR COMMUNITY
Resource Links:

--Alexandra’s BlogHer Voice of The Year piece: When Someone You Love Has A Blog
--Alexandra’s first reading at Listen To Your Mother: The Reach of a Small Moment
--Alexandra’s readings on local public radio (WUWM, Lake Effect): We Don’t Eat PeacocksMagic Memory and Fred and Me
--Pitch Information for The Moth
 
ALL THIS and more! On Beyond Your Blog's Podcast: Finding Outlets for reading your work aloud: 
 
 
**A huge thank you to Susan Maccarelli, founder of Beyond Your Blog, a site that helps bloggers get published on sites beyond their own blogs! Follow Beyond Your Blog if you want to get read!
 
And for fun, let's have some more exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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8 comments:

  1. ha. reading aloud is very different...for me it was about discovering how words sound...which then changed the way i write...writing to be spoken is very different than writing to be read....

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    1. For the ear, not the eye. SO different. And fun. Carefully choosing the words because you can write "My vegan..." but READ on the radio "My Vegan" and it sounds like Ma Fagan. The n the listener is trying to figure out who the heck is Ma Fagan and where did she come into the story...

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  2. I simply adore "Listen To Your Mother."
    I've listened to EVERYBODY....including "YOU!"
    I'd love to read or be in the audience or...
    What a faaaaaaaaabulous experience this must be!! x

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    1. Is there anything close to you, Inner Chick?

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  3. I had such a good time listening to this podcast and learning more about your experiences. In particular, I was smiling when it sounded like your sons were coming into the room where you were, chatting, etc., not realizing MOM IS BEING A SUPERSTAR HERE.

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    1. OMG, Joceyln... when I heard that on the podcast all I could remember is me talking and waving my fist at the kids to BE QUIET. I had warned them and warned them. AND warned them!

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  4. Oh yay! Looking forward to listening to this one too. I was hoping Susan would have you on the podcast. The above picture cracks me up. You're such a ham.
    As for reading work aloud, I always do it. It really does make a huge difference reading it back, paying close attention to the rhythm of the words and how the jokes will come across in humor posts. I try to write my stuff like stand up, so it's important. Now, the downside, is when the husband and kids all think I'm bonkers upstairs in my office chattering away and giggling. But then, I've always been bonkers. They know. ;)

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    1. Thank you, LInda. I have to stop over and catch up with you!

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