This was the last speech I had to give to qualify for the International Conference. So I wrote this...a little too quickly and if I hadn't had 3 stories to tell, I don't know how I could have remembered the whole speech.
I rushed this speech and I am glad that I now qualify for the contest, but I feel the last three speeches I did not give enough life to.
The three stories I told were about my mother and her dislocated shoulder, the story about Mackenzie sneezing in my hand, and the ultrasound story. One thing I got feedback on is that I shared two serious memories and one un-important memory. I meant to do that though. I have been struggling with the people who have evaluated me. They do not know the goals of my speech and they never comment on how effectively I match the goals of the speech to my writing.
I am finding more and more that writing and speaking are VERY different. I am great at writing my speeches out quickly and smoothly, but when it gets time to saying out loud it sounds very scripted and dead. I wish I could just speak on the fly. Not quite there.
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