Guests: NAIWE’s Editorial Expert Barbara McNichol and Guest Andrea Beaulieu 

As an author, put yourself in your book through story. As a speaker, put yourself in your presentation through story. Both authors and speakers can open with a story; it adds interest from the start as to why you wrote the book or presentation. Your story is the emotion behind your book or presentation; it touches your audience and is the connection to making a point that you want to be remembered. It is also important to add story as it may make the difference in helping someone else. 

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class: 

  • A wealth of ideas for telling stories on the page and the stage 

  • How to express the stories that compelled you to write the books in the first place 

  • The power of story in fiction and nonfiction 

  • How to express the emotional why behind your book 

  • 6 questions to ask yourself to add to the emotion of your stories 

Audio Only 

Duration: 1 hour, 5 minutes

Barbara McNichol is a nonfiction editor who works with authors, speakers, and business professionals to add power to their pen through the written word. Barbara wrote Word Trippers: The Ultimate Source for Choosing the Perfect Word When It Really Matters. She offers helpful writing tips weekly and a course to take your writing and editing to the next level: “WordShops: Strengthen Everything You Write.” 

Andrea Beaulieu is coach, consultant, and speaker. She is the author of Ah Ha! 100 Flashes of Insight and Inspiration From Your Authentic Voice and Finding Your Authentic Voice: 7 Practices to Free the Real You and Experience Love, Happiness, and Fulfillment.