by Allan Scott | 19 January 2019 | Scriptwriting, Video |
Interviews for video aren’t exactly like the ones you see on the news. It’s true that you’re after the same thing as a news reporter – namely the story. But there the resemblance pretty much ends. Because it’s your job to make...
by Allan Scott | 18 January 2019 | Uncategorized, Writing skills |
What scares you? In fact, what scares you the most? How about death? Scary enough? Failure. Does that worry you? Then, of course, there’s pain. No one loves pain. But in a well-known survey… …one fear topped them all. The fear of public speaking. And...
by Allan Scott | 16 January 2019 | Business skills |
What happens when the whole basis for your business – disappears…? You really have just two options: to close the business, or to take the plunge by embracing change. If you’ve read my earlier piece – All change? – you’ll know what...
by Allan Scott | 16 January 2019 | Business skills |
Change, in business, is something that comes with the territory. Mostly because if it doesn’t, the business won’t survive. There’s a (very) old joke among typographers about the Latin tag ‘in perpetua floreat nihil’. Which they translate...
by Allan Scott | 8 January 2019 | Spoken word, Writing skills |
We don’t speak in the same way that we write. So if you’re writing something that’s going to be read aloud, you need to think a little differently. Short sentences. Ungrammatical constructions. (Or, at least, not strictly grammatical.) Careful word...
