A good speech has a voice.\u00a0 It sounds like an individual\u2014specifically, the individual who is delivering the speech. It should not sound like the speechwriter.<\/p>\n
And yet us speechwriters<\/a><\/strong> are often given only a brief time with the speaker to determine what she wants to say.\u00a0 From that brief meeting, we are expected to extract the message she wants to impart, and the sound, tone, texture, and rhythm of her verbal personality.<\/p>\n So, if you are a speaker, and you are working with a speechwriter<\/a><\/strong> in New Jersey or New York, (or anywhere else for that matter) how can you maximize the few minutes you have with your speechwriter<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Only by inviting your speechwriter into your inner circle will you get what you want and need\u2014a speech<\/strong><\/a> that captures not only what you want to say, but how you want to say it.<\/p>\n A good speech has a voice.\u00a0 It sounds like an individual\u2014specifically, the individual who is delivering the speech. It should not sound like the speechwriter. And yet us speechwriters are often given only a brief time with the speaker to determine what she wants to say.\u00a0 From that brief meeting, we are expected to extract… Read More »Your speechwriter: How to get the most out of him<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[603,18,297,291,88,337,905,30,612,904],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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