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The Mother of Communication? – lessons on writing, talking, and connection

Yesterday, at Balticon, I had the honor of sitting on a panel that discussed how to adapt fiction to stage or screen. One of the questions the moderator asked was to define the nuts and bolts of doing that sort of adaptation. One of the other panel members said that you needed to only the…

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My Faux Pas transformed into a Faux Pie: Say what you mean with the appropriate flavor

I can no longer leave voicemails without adding in the Voice-to-Text commands that make words into sentences. I just left a voicemail that went like this: “Hi [period]. This is Izolda [period]. I had a couple of questions for you [period]. Can you give me a call when you get a chance [comma], please ?…

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Tongue-Tied Up on a Word? Use Tongue Twisters.

For my voiceover/narration friends and singing students who follow me here:  A colleague asked a question about how to pronounce certain words when saying them comes out sounding wrong. In this case, it was “protests.” Here’s my answer. It might be helpful to others of you as well. “First, you need to do some practicing…