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Who Dares Wins: Extroverts and Introverts
Author: bob02.19.2008
Spent the past weekend at the National Speakers Association conference in San Francisco. It was a very different type of audience in some ways those at a writers conferences. Writers tend to be introverts. Speakers tend to be extroverts. Also, I was teaching non-fiction writing, not fiction. It was interesting, though, that there wasn’t much difference. I even ended up saying your protagonist in non-fiction is often the reader while the antagonist is whatever specific problem they’re facing. I listened to other speakers and learned some things. There were a lot of catchy phrases, humor, and advice. Many of the speakers seemed to be former sales people, so there was a lot of focus on that. Since I have the selling ability of a rock, I was a bit out of my element.I did manage to get Who Dares Wins down to a three minute sound bite which was good. I spent a lot of the drive down with my watch, going through the short bit.The more I see what’s out there, the more I feel Who Dares Wins has a place. Now I have to shift gears and structure my Who Dares Wins book that I sold to Simon & Schuster. It’s for individuals, so the focus goes away from team-building and to person-building. So a different focus. I’ve got six people signed up for my March Writers Workshop. That leaves only two slots, if anyone is interested. The Whidbey Island Writers conference is next week and I hope some locals will show some interest in the Workshop. I’ve got three weeks before I have to fly again– this time to Cincy to meet Jenny. We’ll be working on Wild Ride and He Wrote She Wrote. Then we drive to PA, where I teach my day long workshop for the Pocono-Lehigh RWA group and Jenny goes on to NJ to visit her daughter. She picks me up on the way back– she might even slow down– and then I fly back from Cincy. Nothing but good times ahead.
February 20th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
“she might ever slow down” - *Snort*
I’m looking forward to your WDW for individuals! Should be very helpful to me.
San Francisco must have been an interesting experience!!
February 20th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
The selling ability of a rock? Hmmm. I think you’ve got more ability than that.
But writers are a strange lot. It’s hard to come out of the writers cave, that nice safe dark place, and go out in public like a performing seal doing backflips and making huge splashes to lots of oohs and aaahs. I think most writers just hope the public will somehow find them and then like them when they do.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:13 am
I attended your session in San Francisco and absolutely loved it. You mentioned you’d have the PPT available from that session on your site, but I don’t see it yet. Hope you’ll be posting that soon!
February 21st, 2008 at 6:20 pm
There’s more to life than introverts and extroverts. There’s intensity, balance, fear–and other attributes, too. Like workaholism. I had something profound to say, but reading your schedule has worn me plumb out.
Rock on, Robert.
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Thanks for that comment about non-fiction, been wondering about that and many other similar topics. Non-fiction writing books don’t seem to be as “good,” I think I mean focused, as fiction writing books.
Since you’ve done both maybe you should take a stab at it.
Thanks for the vicarious experiences
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
We would like a full report, Bob.
February 23rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Why would I slow down? Bob likes a challenge.
February 23rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
And active versus reactive. That’s a biggie, IMO. Where are all the CBs?
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
*waving madly* Here we are LtL. Just behind a bit on blog reading. Jenny will have to slow down because Bob probably will insist upon driving. Whereby a wonderful blog post will show up.
The Bickersons- don’t you just love them.
Oh- did Bob mention something about a book? Sorry, Bob. IF you need a group of subjects to interview I am SURE that the CB’s would love to help.
Yep- CB’s- always willing to step in to help him and her.
February 24th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Just remember, Bob, “tuck and roll.”
February 24th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Hmm. I had a car once that was tucked and rolled. Was confiscated from a cross-border drug runner. Amazing low-end pickup. We are talking about fancy leather upholstery, right?
February 25th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
The selling ability of a rock. No, I don’t agree. Bob, you have all those books you’ve already written: non-fiction and fiction. Misuse of a term, I’d say.