Great post from CopyBlogger on The Quentin Tarantino Guide to Creating Killer Content. My favorite parts:
You’ve got to memorize what’s important so you can make the rest your own.
This is so true for speeches. Trying to memorize your entire speech is going to be anxiety inducing. You may pull it off, but the speech is unlikely to come across naturally. How can it? You are effectively reading from your notes, just no one can see them.
Instead, memorize a few key pieces. The introduction and conclusion are good candidates, along with your key points and a couple of choice phrases.
The only way to do that is to keep saying it and saying it and saying it and saying it.
Practice is the key. Not just practicing your speech, but practicing speaking in general, week in, week out. Tell stories whenever you get a chance. Each time is an opportunity to build on the last experience.
Check out the article, great advice for speech writing and also copywriting.
Posted under Public Speaking
This post was written by john on November 3, 2009
