Discover the Ultimate Speech-Writing Hack for Success

24 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by TJ Walker offering a practical speech-writing tip: instead of drafting on paper or typing, record your speech as an audio memo and use that spoken-first draft (or its transcription) as the basis for your written speech. The method emphasizes spoken language’s shorter words and sentences to produce more natural delivery.

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What's the best way to start writing a speech or presentation? Believe it or not, it's not sitting down, typing, or writing out longhand. Instead, pull out your cell phone, go to the audio memo record, and talk out your speech. When you are speaking, people are going to be hearing you. They're not reading you. So your first draft, the initial planning stages are going to be so much better. When you've talked it out, you'll use natural language. Record it. You can transcribe it if you want. Later first draft make it the spoken word. Because when we write, when we type, we tend to use bigger words, longer sentence structures. When we speak, we naturally use smaller words, shorter sentences. That's where you want to be when you're writing your speech.