Speech Writing
You're going to write a speech. And you're scared to death. Sure, I know you're not afraid of the speechmaking. Spouting it out is comparatively easy; in fact, it may be fun. But writing-ah! That is another story.
But relax, and let's talk about it. Push aside the paper and pencil, or if you are planning to dictate your speech, tell who-ever's wanting to ask something to come back later. Somehow this invitation to make a speech puffs you up like a gas balloon. Why, I don't know.
How to Write Speeches...
You're the same person you were before you took the phone call or read the email invitation. The ideas you will present to these people will be the same old stuff that you've been giving your buddies and the bartender. There is nothing startling or revolutionary about these ideas. Well, if you are the same person with the same ideas, what's the sense of getting puffed up?
So let's deflate and discuss why they asked you to make this speech. I don't mean what they told you in the invitation - let's go into the real why.
Is it because Whosis is the program chairman, and he knows you or has heard of you? Or maybe somebody has asked your manager in Fort Worth, and he tried to think of somebody and sold you to them. Or perhaps they've got twenty-seven turndowns and in desperation they are grabbing at you. Most invitations are like that. So let's not get puffed up over the request. Sometimes it's a case of everybody in the group has to give speech or toast or...
Then let's consider what they want. Well, they want you to talk for twenty or thirty minutes. They hope you will be good, but they have their ringers crossed. They want you to tell them something, or to sell them something, and they hope you'll do it
From "How to Write a Speech"
By: EDWARD J. HEGARTY
Writing a Great Speech
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Time allotment brings up another point - what is to be left out.
Perhaps a subject that you should cover cannot be handled in the time available for it. This forces a decision on whether or not to give the subject the once-over-lightly treatment or to leave it out altogether.
Such an outline helps you remember your speech. In the part on variety, let's say there are four points to make.
Now it is fairly easy to remember four points and the order in which they come. Thus, if I am thrown off the main track, I can come back much easier. I had four points in the beginning. When I went astray I had covered three.
Point four is - thus I get back on the track.
One fellow I know builds his little squares into a bridge. "If I get off the track," he says, "I can always come back to my bridge." That is useful in any speech you make.
Many times a snatch of conversation before you get up to talk, a question, or some audience reaction will send you off on a diversion not written into your speech.
The outline should help you get back on the bridge at about where you went off.
Continued...
From "How to Write a Speech"
By: EDWARD J. HEGARTY
Write a Speech | How to Write Great Speeches
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