4 ms·

So I introspected what I did and realized something I didn't include in the post. I was under a time crunch to memorize my talk (I think I started about 4-6 ho

So I introspected what I did and realized something I didn't include in the post. I was under a time crunch to memorize my talk (I think I started about 4-6 hours before) so the sentences were a way to speed that along. The process went like this: 1. Read talk end to end out loud from sentences 2. Start trying to time sentences with slides (with sentences still there) 3. Remove sentences but see all the slides still 4. Only see the current slide Took me about 2-3 hours to nail down. By step 3 and 4 I was already improvising most of the sentences each time though and only the core point stayed constant.

jordo37 13y ago
Great refinement mike. I did speech (forensics) throughout all of high school and the trick is exactly what he says at the bottom - you work through the speech as is, with full sentences because it allows you to take advantage of excellent writing and structure. Then, you improvise on top of it so you 1) don't get stilted and disconnected from your audience and 2) you can add content based on what people are responding to, or even other input from the day (previous speeches, etc)