Alive Writing Part II

There are those who know with a passion for their subject.

There are those who know with a passion for their subject and can communicate that subject and passion beautifully through the written word.

There are those who know with a passion for their subject and can communicate that subject and passion beautifully through the written word and can't make a speech about it worth a darn!

And therein lies a problem. If you love a subject, and love what some expert has written about that subject and want that expert to speak at a conference or convention, make sure you have heard him or her before hand. I have been on the choosing end throughout my professional life and sometimes we were really thrown. I remember the poet we were So Excited to have as our speaker, asking her to please include some of her poems in her presentation. I sat there as the stage manager sighing. I was also an actor ~ and I could have read her poems So Much Better than she did. Write them? No - absolutely not. She is a brilliant poet. A speaker, she was Not!

We all have different talents and we are wise to recognize them in ourselves and in each other.