EPTI also have a really obnoxious habit of pausing at strange times during my conversation. It is terribly distracting and I'm determined to stop doing it and to develop a smooth, consistent cadence in the pause's place.
So, it seems that my current issue is threefold:
1) I'm intimidated by the thought of casting because I don't want to make a fool out of myself
2) I have trouble keeping up a consistent stream of talk
3) I have some bad verbal habits
As I was thinking about how to deal with these issues I found myself still unable to resolve my microphone issues (due to being poorer then I thought I was). In addition, I'm also having some frustration with my inability to create usable Graphics.
So, suffice it to say, the last week or so has been frustrating.
In order to address these issues I'll be taking a couple mental steps and as I stated in the title of this blog, setting aside fear in favor of being a fool. To resolve my problems I will be:
1) Accepting the fact that I've been foolish before and will be foolish again, so now is as good a time as any
2) Practice practice practice. I'll be streaming (on JTV + my stream here) on most days, mostly early in the morning (3am'ish Eastern) and maybe in the afternoons as well. This should help me get used to talking to an audience, even an imaginary one, and help me practice my "verbal diarrhea"
3) Focus in my practice time. I am going to take some steps in my personal life as well as focusing on specifically working on individual problems and bad habits in my time streaming.
If anyone is interested in helping me out with the graphics I need, send me a message here on TL. They are really pretty simple, I just have -5 skill with any of that sort of thing. As for my sad microphone issues, I'm just going to have to tough it out until I have the chance to fix it. Until then, my sound quality will probably be pretty bad, but I'll survive
So, if you're terribly bored, jump on and listen to me prattle on and on and let me know how I can improve.
