To: My Blogger Friend Bill
About a month ago as I was catching up on the reading of my favorite blogs, I ran across bill's blog post titled, "Two Stories". I read the post time after time and was seized by the story and the style of writing in which he used to retell it. The surprise ending made me catch my breath. I eventually copied and pasted it to a Word document then printed it in order to read it, yet, some more.
I recently completed ten more manual speeches in front of my Toastmaster group and was rewarded with the Advanced Communicator Bronze certificate and acknowledgment. This allowed me the opportunity to order and receive two more advanced manuals with project objectives to complete. One of the manuals is entitled; Interpretive Reading. The first speech objective was to read a story authored by someone else and to do it in such a way, it evokes emotion from the audience and brings them into the story. "Two Stories" seemed the perfect one to present. I secured permission from our friend to use his writing as my project.
I read and rehearsed the story so often, I practically had it memorized and I worked diligently to read it within the time constraints. I read the story two weeks ago to the club and did it quite well. I received so many comments and compliments on the surprising story and my mode of presentation, I felt good and felt as though I did our friend bill, justice. In fact, I haven't received that many kudos on a presentation in quite a while. So here is a hearty thanks to our blogger friend bill for allowing me to read your work as my project. I still love that story and I am grateful we found each other in cyber space.
I recently completed ten more manual speeches in front of my Toastmaster group and was rewarded with the Advanced Communicator Bronze certificate and acknowledgment. This allowed me the opportunity to order and receive two more advanced manuals with project objectives to complete. One of the manuals is entitled; Interpretive Reading. The first speech objective was to read a story authored by someone else and to do it in such a way, it evokes emotion from the audience and brings them into the story. "Two Stories" seemed the perfect one to present. I secured permission from our friend to use his writing as my project.
I read and rehearsed the story so often, I practically had it memorized and I worked diligently to read it within the time constraints. I read the story two weeks ago to the club and did it quite well. I received so many comments and compliments on the surprising story and my mode of presentation, I felt good and felt as though I did our friend bill, justice. In fact, I haven't received that many kudos on a presentation in quite a while. So here is a hearty thanks to our blogger friend bill for allowing me to read your work as my project. I still love that story and I am grateful we found each other in cyber space.
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