New Year’s Resolutions for Speechwriters
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009Make yourself this professional promise:
“In 2009, I will find out the ’speech rate’ (the number of spoken words per minute) for each of my clients. ”
After all, how can you write a terrific 8 minute speech … if you don’t know whether your client speaks only 110 words per minute, or rushes along at 195 words per minute? Do the math. It makes a huge difference.
Happy New Year!
“Start with a fresh page…. on the first of January, let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.” (Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, US clergy)