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In Which I Set Fear Aside and Resume Foolishness

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IVFearless
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States165 Posts
May 03 2011 15:51 GMT
#1
I've got a confession to make. I'm rather afraid of casting. Something about talking non-stop for the length of a game while sitting by myself is quite daunting. This actually surprised me as I used to be absurdly outspoken and such a chatterbox that all my friends would beg me to shut up. Then I realized that there was much wisdom in the old saying, "better to stay silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." So, with a friend's help, I trained myself to remain silent leading to my current trouble with speaking.

I 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.

rift
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
1819 Posts
May 03 2011 17:10 GMT
#2
Do a lot of analysis and the cast takes care of itself. The game demands that you describe why people are doing things, not just what they are doing. Play-by-play can be really superficial unless you're catering to casuals.
IVFearless
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States165 Posts
May 03 2011 17:17 GMT
#3
On May 04 2011 02:10 rift wrote:
Do a lot of analysis and the cast takes care of itself. The game demands that you describe why people are doing things, not just what they are doing. Play-by-play can be really superficial unless you're catering to casuals.


Thanks for the insight rift. How would you recommend learning to analyze? Will it be enough to study up about the game and then translate that into discussion? Or should I be doing something else as well?
Trowabarton756
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States870 Posts
May 03 2011 17:44 GMT
#4
On May 04 2011 02:17 IV.Fearless wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 04 2011 02:10 rift wrote:
Do a lot of analysis and the cast takes care of itself. The game demands that you describe why people are doing things, not just what they are doing. Play-by-play can be really superficial unless you're catering to casuals.


Thanks for the insight rift. How would you recommend learning to analyze? Will it be enough to study up about the game and then translate that into discussion? Or should I be doing something else as well?


It helps to play a lot of games and styles for every race so it gives you ideas why like in the spanishwa build you rely on queens+lings+spines with no gas till ~40 then explode with 4 gas geysers. Things like this will also allow you to more accurately predict what will happen when "unorthodox" play comes up.
http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/Trowabarton756
IVFearless
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States165 Posts
May 03 2011 18:00 GMT
#5
On May 04 2011 02:44 Trowabarton756 wrote:
It helps to play a lot of games and styles for every race so it gives you ideas why like in the spanishwa build you rely on queens+lings+spines with no gas till ~40 then explode with 4 gas geysers. Things like this will also allow you to more accurately predict what will happen when "unorthodox" play comes up.


Okay, so playing random (and a lot) will help. I'm currently pretty bad but I could probably work playing into my streaming time and still work on my casting at the same time. Thanks for the advice
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