Jacob Szymanski

There's something full circle about it, to go back to crowding around a storyteller and just listening enraptured to this person who has fantastic public speaking skills.

It's a real skill also to just communicate it well, and that's when audiobook narrators come in, right?

Facts.

And one of the reasons I feel like this idea that all written communication ultimately is oral communication in the end, it feels right, is that when you're reading print, you have a little voice in your head, right?

There's a process that turns those words into spoken language.

It has a rhythm to it, like one word at a time.

You're not just taking in blocks of information at a time.

I would assume not.

And then that turns into oral communication in your head.

There's a process of translation there.

And that's why it just feels right to me.

Do you know what I mean?

It would be fascinating to have someone on the show one day who's an expert in reading mechanics, like a reading therapist or something like that.

I'd be fascinated to know.

But I do want to touch on this idea of pacing in text and varying your sentence structure.

And I want to give you a couple of quotes from Frank Herbert.

And to be clear, he's not the first author to vary sentence length.

That is kind of common writing advice.

But I want to show you an example.

Here's a quote.