Public speaking

New Experiences & Looking For Leads

This post is going to be something different. I don’t like asking for things. It has come from a lot of times where other people. I could see others needed it more than I could. At this moment. There are things I’m going to ask you, the readers, for. Obviously, let’s get the easy one. If you like my book or you like my stuff, cost me a couple bucks. Generally with these sort of things, there’s got to be one ask for money. I’d like to just put it at the front. That way you can all just kind of gloss over it.

What I want more then anything? It isn’t money. I know that’s a shocking thing to say, but I understand things are tight. If you want to give me money, I will not say no to it. That is not the major reason to this post. That’s not the main reason for this. What I want to do is there are a lot of different things I want to get further into. After this month, I’m going to focus on getting more of my work together in different formats, whether it be for voice acting, or whether it be for speaking. And I would like to see myself go a little bit further in those different directions to round myself out, so to speak.

Each of the following skills I’ve done some work in and I would like to do more. This will be split one skill per paragraph, so it’s very easy to see what’s going on without having to read the whole thing period. Writing with a dictation machine, I understand I can get a bit long winded. I can talk like a hamster and a Mobius strip.

Voice acting. There isn’t a set thing I want to do while a voice acting, whether it be dramatic reading or add reading. I want to take my voice and make something more out of it. I have a very deep tone. If you’ve ever heard me on stream, I will never hit a high note worthwhile. If I ever need to sing the Oogie Boogie song from The Nightmare Before Christmas or Scar’s part from Lion King, That I can do that all day without much of a problem. Projects in voice acting that I have done Include the various readings on my YouTube channel for different books, different stories, a lot of fan fiction readings. I wanted to get that out there. It was fun. Give it a try if you’re ever bored. Advertisement readings for my Community College. They did a whole ad setup where I was one of the main voices. It was a very entertaining experience and it’s something that made me look of doing it more. Other than that, bit parts here and there so I have some experience I would like more. It’s something that will probably mean I’ll have to set up a specific page just to have all my portfolios in one spot.

Public speaking. I enjoyed doing my speech for the community colleges in North Carolina, I enjoyed speaking to Phi Theta Kappa when I was an international candidate, and I feel with my experiences there is a lot I can speak on to at least make it interesting. It is one of those things where if you have to deal with my way of speaking for long periods of time, you’d rather run your head into a cinder block. However, when it comes to a 30 minute speech, even if it’s a long interview. Generally, I have found that the way I speak is very animated and enough where people are usually invested. This makes it a good thing because moving forward. I want people to be invested in what I have to say. I want them to find it worthwhile.

Let’s start with those two skills right now. What I am asking you is to look around my stuff, whether it be my YouTube channel where you can see the readings or it be my Twitch channel where you can talk with me in person, in living color. What I want is if you know where there may be some speaking opportunities in the future. Granted online works better, I would prefer it. That doesn’t mean I can’t travel. Generally. I am in the Pacific Northwest. So, and because of health issues, I am unable to drive. What’s the health reason? Well, I pass out sometimes. That means that doctors are generally not too happy to put me behind the wheel of a one-ton vehicle. Granted, I’ve seen how some people drive on the highways. I feel that even though I passed out, I have a better than coin flip chance that I’m going to be not the worst one on the roads.

If you like my writing, or you think that my writing works to a style that you find useful for one project or another, let me know. I would prefer to be paid for it. I am a college student. Money is nice. However, I know there’s not a lot of money going around right now, so if there is something that you think I can do, well, we’ll figure it out, just let me know. That has to be what I want moving forward. Money is great. I would prefer the opportunity to show that I can do more things at a high enough level that people can enjoy .

These may not be within the time frame of this month or next month. Take it like this. If there is something that you know, even if it’s a website where hey, there’s a lot of parts going on that may be useful for you, send me a note. Let me know because if I feel it’s crap. Then I’ll call it out, but at that point, you can tell me why I am wrong, and we can have that conversation. I may be an idiot sometimes but I have no problem taking my lumps when I need to. There also may be something I don’t understand about this business online for either one of these skills where you can correct me. This is a learning experience for me. I am doing this on the side trying to figure this out while I’m trying to figure the rest of my life.

Thanks for keeping an eye out for me.

Stay strong.

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What I Have Been Doing (1)

If you have been reading these posts for a while you may find it surprising I do volunteer. I actually made an effort to do so by going into university to try and cover possible weaknesses in my schooling. Less than three weeks ago one of my contacts needed me to do a speech, 20 to 30 minutes, online to a group of people in a few different community colleges. In fact, you can look it up it was call NoTED. The paperwork on the licensing so the whole pun on notes, I am guessing, was made. I think it works.

Now for some people this would take a month, or two months or I have heard some going three months out to properly prepare. I was given about three weeks, and I did it because I thought I should see if I could. Turns out I can, speaking about overcoming challenges and adversity, and despite everything it went well. As well as can be said in any case, the school who was hosting the event seemed to have glowing terms about it. So, I guess I do public speaking (?) now.

Seriously, between this and the voiceover work this is getting fun in the oddest of ways. Try new things people, you never know where it may lead you. One day if I ever have kids I will have top tier dad-lore, between the voice acting experience, the street fighting and the professional cookery. Even if I do not have children, I hope some of the next generation learn sometime the number one piece of advice is being ready and able to do your best. That has got me more than anything else, and even in places where I should have been more knowledgeable about the different crafts I was in. Volunteering I have found to learn more crafts with a patina of doing something good for society, it does help others but it also helps me. Sometimes you have to pay for your lessons in time and energy instead of money, and if you can find things you want to help then it will be good to get that extra on the resume.

Funny thing about volunteering, often times if you have a heartbeat and a wanting to help, they will train you to do stuff you never did before. This often comes with real life experience so its something you can count on to help you get more time on it in the future if that is what interests you. Volunteering is interesting because as I stated earlier you don’t need any experience to get some. You do not need a degree to work in say broadcasting now that maybe the issue is it may not be a glamorous time or place to volunteer and that is something where you have to find it within yourself if it is worth it to do.

One thing I am working on, is a book for students of all kinds particularly disabled to get the most out of their college education so that when they leave college for whatever reason with whatever degree that they have they feel that they are the best equipped that they have the extracurriculars and experience to make the most of their time disability or not. This is something that was going to be done through my off hours, however, work found it worthwhile enough. Overall groovy, it may be mine, it may be theirs, it may be both, and at this point there is nothing I could care less about because it should be written. This month I have to try and write (ha) some past wrongs during events past and now I am also a university student so the rest of the things I am doing does not stop whether I wish it to or not. In short it will be a barrel fun that will most likely lead to at least one doctor chewing me out for pushing too hard, or going to the hospital or doing something they do not like because I have the IQ of a particular gourd popular during this time.  I do have a plan for what I need to do and there will be some efforts made to stick to it so whatever chaos I would like to bring has to be put at the wayside for right now, because there will be things that need to be corrected and someone has three victories over me and that don’t sit well worth a bit.

For those who do not know, I am talking about Game of Tomes a group of people where 3 times a year we get together and write and edit as much as we can creatively to figure out exactly how much we can do and it’s more fun than national novel writing month. Now I have done this for a few years now save for this last one because of my studies, and my extracurriculars, and everything else I tend to get into for some odd reason. In any case if you would like to join us in learning how to write large amounts or editing. You have a novel that you really want to just spend some time writing with people who are doing the same you can join us on twitch at game of tomes. For those who are new, during this time you have 30 days to write or edit or do something word wise to help your score that score affects your house your house is when you get to choose but whatever choice you make that’s going to be the choice you stick with throughout the event now there are different houses major and minor I am part of house chiroptera or if you know your animal terminology the house of the bat.

Whatever house you choose each event is 30 days. In those 30 days you just do as much as you can you compete as a house you can compete against rival I have a rival it feels like the Batman and joker kind of situation between us. In any case I learned how to write a lot more because of this I have a book out now on Amazon you can order right now reading this because of the writing that I had to go through and because of my rival. My suggestion would be do not try to start off and think that you’re going to beat everybody no one did I did not every winner who’s done the most in this you know has not done that we have had to grow into it and sometimes people feel that they cannot and legitimately writing I have found is a lot like a muscle. You must train it. You must work with it. You must get the information to maximize it.

Despite how much of this month is going to be chaotic for me, I hope you come and join us I hope you enjoy it and if you want to join the House of the Bat in any case as always.

Stay Strong.

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