Speeches

Read Acts 1-3

Acts 2:14 "But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:"

Speech writing is another tool to have ready in our freelance belt. When we’re writing speeches for others, we will need to know what our client wants the speech to be about.

We’ll need to know the purpose of the speech as well—to inform, to inspire, maybe to entertain? We’ll need to know who is expected to be listening to the speech in order to make appropriate word choices and to know what kinds of examples would be best received.

We’ll also need to know how our client talks and what word choices she normally uses, maybe get those examples we were going to use from her. Once we have these ingredients, we can write the speech our client would feel she couldn’t have done better if she had written it herself.