As a personal writer, your goal is to create a shared emotional experience with your audience. Pathos describes your ability to evoke reader emotions but to...Read More

What makes a top travel destination? A place that you not only loved first time round but want to go back to. That's what we were wondering yesterday at a lunch to ...Read More

I don't go to out at night to pick up men. It just happens. The first time I was driving home from the local Toastmasters public speaking improvement session...Read More

I write this outside on the floor of my old porch, wind tugging at the trees, shadows playing on the grass. I moved into a new house yesterday but there's no...Read More

I found out from my own experience of blogging that sharing personal stories can also be good for business. It seems counter-intuitive so I was delighted to...Read More

Ultimate proof that it pays to dream and it pays to keep working towards your dream. This story will inspire writers, travellers and dreamers to keep doing what...Read More

What springs to mind when you think of France? The Eiffel Tower? Frogs legs? A French man on a bike with a beret on his head and a baguette tucked under ...Read More

Darren LaCroix, the 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking, says we use stories to make our point (or lessons) more memorable. People learn from stories which ...Read More