Your speech preparation is going well. You started with your core message, wrapped it in a speech outline, extracted your first draft, edited your speech, and added impact with rhetorical devices. You’re ready to deliver, right?
Wrong. You only have words on paper, and your audience doesn’t want to read your speech.
Your audience wants to see and hear your presentation. You will dazzle them by complementing your speech with staging, gestures, and vocal variety.
This article shows you how.
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The previous article in the Speech Preparation Series showed you how to edit your speech for focus, clarity, and concision.
However, your speech can be focused, clear, and concise and still lack vitality.
If your speech is void of rhetorical devices, it is like a painting void of color.
On all technical points, a black and white sketch might clearly be a woman smiling, or group of men having a meal, but without color, it’s not the Mona Lisa or The Last Supper.
With many examples, this article demonstrates how you can inject rhetorical devices into your speech during the editing process.
Conventional wisdom says the best speeches are not written; they are rewritten. Yet, most speakers present content that falls between a first draft and no preparation at all.
Don’t be like most speakers.
Allow yourself the time to edit for focus, clarity, concision, continuity, variety, and impact. If you do, you will give your audience a performance that will dazzle them.
The previous article in the Speech Preparation Series showed you how to write the first draft of your speech.
In this article and the next one, you will develop the skills required to improve your speech through iterative speech editing.
Writer’s block is debilitating.
Writer’s block is discouraging.
Writer’s block stops average speakers from becoming great speakers.
Don’t let it stop you!
The previous article in the Speech Preparation Series gave tips for writing a speech outline.
This article shows you how to wrestle writer’s block by transitioning from a speech outline to the first draft.
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Saturday signals a scan of the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere.
Just a few of the topics featured this week are:
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