Yesterday, almost first thing, the friend who 'encouraged' me to read in public read to me what she was going to read in public. It started off very nicely--a compact little story, well written--and then somebody had a moment and I thought, oh, what a nice, moving piece. And then she kept going. And the nice piece became something outlandish and hilarious.
And as I was laughing I thought, wait a minute.
I signed up right after her? I have to follow this?
As it turned out, I was the second person to follow that and I had to feel for the first one as well as myself. And I learned a good thing about 50+ people reading for less than 3 minutes each: once the next speaker has uttered three words, everybody's forgotten the reading that came before.
At least until later. I'm still laughing about Grampie's nose.
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So glad you survived the first reading. It gets easier, I promise.
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