Part 3
If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.
Dianna Booher
Lucy Longtalk glanced at her audience and frowned. ‘Why are they fidgeting so much?’ she asked herself.
They had been so enthusiastic when she’d started talking. The audience had been brimming with energy at the beginning and there was even a moment where the whole group had clapped at something she’d said. But now, 55 minutes later, they had glazed looks on their faces and a couple of them were even checking their phones as she was speaking.
‘It’s like a completely different audience,’ Lucy thought. ‘What’s gone wrong?’
Balance
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