by Allan Scott | 20 February 2020 | Business skills, Spoken word, Uncategorized |
Are you terrified of public speaking? For a lot of people the very idea of getting up on your hind legs and talking to an audience – any audience – is so frightening that they try to avoid it at all costs.. And believe me, I know how that feels. At the...
by Allan Scott | 10 January 2020 | Spoken word |
Public speaking makes people nervous. Nothing new there. In fact in a famous survey of things that frightened people, public speaking came top of the list. (And death came fourth. Allegedly…) So what can you do about it? As it happens, I’m in charge of the...
by Allan Scott | 19 August 2019 | Personal |
On Valentine’s Day 1989 the new love of my life and I exchanged suspiciously similar-looking envelopes – and found we had indeed bought the same card. Mine in Birmingham. Hers in Walthamstow. It showed a princess encountering – and being kissed by...
by Allan Scott | 19 August 2019 | Personal |
On the day of our engagement, picture two people dressed in posh 15th-century clothes wandering the streets of Orford. Night is falling. We have nowhere to sleep. Unless, of course, we fancy putting up a tent in the dark… (And if you don’t know how we got...
by Allan Scott | 19 August 2019 | Personal |
Picture it if you can… It’s the week before our wedding. I’ve been burning the candle at all three ends (metaphysically speaking) to finish my first solo novel – a dark fantasy farrago called The Dragon in the Stone. (Not read the story so far?...
