Longview Evening Toastmasters meets every Thursday at the
Pine Tree Community Connections Annex

Bring Your Speech to Life With a Story

20 ideas to engage your members and gain new ones.

Let me tell you a story.I wrote for TV news and magazines for many years. I also loved novels and wanted to learn how to write a good one. So I returned to school, where I discovered dozens of effective techniques for improving my writing.

By the time I graduated, many of my sentences were positively shimmering.

But I still couldn’t publish a novel, much less come up with an interesting plot. Most of my fellow students couldn’t, either. Several of us had had agents who gave us up when our books didn’t sell. I knew I was not the only one who felt like a failure.

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