Public Stuttering

Well, I tried my hand at public speaking today.
All I had to do was stand in front of a small audience and speak about my art... How hard could that be?

Even though my work covers issues I've discussed a thousand times before, somehow today I turned into a stuttering, sweaty mess who was, for the first time in an age- lost for words. And things went from bad to worse when a microphone was thrust into my face and started to record me! Not only was I still suffering from all of the above nerve related afflictions, I then started to speak in a seriously odd voice. I found myself not speaking in my normal fairly high pitched and feminine tone, but a deep, monotone voice. Why? Why did this fuzzy little speaker turn me from a naturally excitable, expressive speaker into a dull and masculine sounding bore? That's not going to do me any favours when it comes to trying to sell my work!

I'm really dreading hearing the interview when it airs on my local radio station next week!  

And as if that wasn't bad enough, during my speech my concentration disappeared and all I could think about was how much of an idiot I was for VOLUNTEERING to do this in the first place (Yup, I offered to speak!) and that I wouldn't look out of place on the recent Lynx deodorant ad! (yes, it was that bad)

Why didn't I think and purchase this deodorant before hand?

   

I suppose looking back now, I wasn't that bad. The girl interviewing me was very kind and did say that she'd gotten enough to edit and use for the show... which I am kind of glad about, after going through all of that trauma and NOT being in the final show I would have been gutted! 

I suppose the moral of my blog today is- 

Don't volunteer for things you know you won't be able to do...

Don't go near people with fuzzy little microphones...

AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY... Wear a good deodorant, and lots of it!!!


Anyway, here's a picture of my current work that I managed to take before my nerves completely took over!