About Me

The Word Lover

I am a word lover and quite indiscriminate about the objects of my affection.
I love almost all of them: words so large they need wheelbarrows to move them, little, foreign, high or lowbrow, old or new…
I love the way they pattern pages and the way they taste in my mouth.
But most of all I love what they do: communicate.

Growing Up

The family mythology has it I learned to read at three and haven’t stopped since. The last part is certainly true. I remember my early books and the feelings associated with them. Words were wonderful then and still are many years later.

In my teen years I was sure I would be beautiful, an actress, a famous novelist and probably all three at once. However, life has a way of refining aspirations. What actually happened was I went off to university and ultimately became a teacher.

I taught English and drama for many years where my knowledge, respect and love of language grew.
In particular I became deeply interested in how writing for oral presentations, speeches or stories to be read aloud differs from language solely for print.

Write-Out-Loud

Is the dream you had of yourself as a young person still there?
Well, that's how it is for me.
I don't want all of it anymore - just some, and fortunately it's not the beautiful bit!
Neither is it the actress. Teaching drama and joining amateur theatre groups gave her expression.
But the dream of writing and writing well is very much alive.

These days I write poetry, (Click to read and hear one of my poems.), short stories, speeches which I give at my Toastmasters Club and other places, voice-overs for e-learning courses and ofcourse, the pages on this website.

Soon with write-out-loud.com's assistance there's going to be time to write the longer pieces that have been rattling around my mind for years.
How?
Because this website is becoming my time and dream saver.
It earns and as the days go by, it earns more and more. And that will release me from the five days a week going off to work routine and give me the freedom to write as I want to. Exciting? Yes! I love it.

'Write-Out-Loud' all over the world

Since 'going live' on the wonderful world wide web I've made contact with people like you everywhere.
Some have written asking for poem suggestions for a funeral.
Others have just wanted to say 'thank-you' for information that met their needs.
And some have sent in their own public speaking tips and speeches.
As the Disney song says, 'It's a small world afterall'.
It's a great feeling to know that my site helps others while helping me.

Contact

If you'd like to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.
Maybe you'd like some personal speech help?
Or you'd like to share some of your own work?
Perhaps you have suggestions for content or comments on existing content? Please make them. The gift of your two minutes (or more!) is invaluable! You've got my thanks in advance.

Susan

PS. Like you, I loathe spam. Be assured your email address will never be passed on and neither will I directly contact you without your specific invitation to do so.

PPS.Would you like to help others while helping yourself too?
Perhaps you have dreams you want to make reality?
Why not find out more about Site Build It the program I use to build write-out-loud.com?
Dreams have no age limit and unless we consent, no expiry date.