The A to Zen of Speech Writing
By Kathrin Lake
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The A to Zen of Speech Writing gives you a system for writing great speeches at a professional level. Get a boost with Kathrin Lake's easy teachings using her TEPI method. You first decide on the primary speech purpose by dividing it into one of the four broad categories of Training, Entertaining, Persuasion or Inspiration and then follow the guidelines and apply the essential elements. Each element has a short, powerful and inspiring description with the perfect amount of information, and a quote from one or more of the truly great speakers and writers. This is followed by a project page that asks you terrific questions to give you ultimate clarity. Using these project pages you can easily produce a speech that will stand out, win a competition, and make you look like a pro.
Kathrin Lake
Kathrin Lake is an award-winning playwright, writing coach, professional speaker and author of Writing with Cold Feet and From Survival to Thrival. Kathrin has helped many students, entrepreneurs and experts write their books or keynote speeches using her Power of Story system. Kathrin lives in Vancouver but winters in Mexico where she gives writing retreats.
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The A to Zen of Speech Writing - Kathrin Lake
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How to Use This Book
1) Choose the primary ultimate purpose you have for your speech project in the four categories of the TEPI© method:
Training, Entertaining, Persuasion, Inspiration
2) Once you have speech purpose you can go the corresponding pages, in approximately the order listed for those types of speeches, listed on the following pages. Read each relevant page, gather inspiration and then, answer the questions in the project pages to write a stellar speech.
NOTE: There are 26 elements in all, but every speech should have these 13:
Purpose & Points, Know Your Audience, Big Bang Beginning, Flow, Meaningful Conclusion, Neat Package, You, Storytelling, Timing, Less is More, Words, Delivery Humor (almost always).
See your Table of Contents or Directory for each element, or use the links under each speech type.
Training Speeches
Training (20 Elements)
Move through these elements for Training Speeches:
Purpose and Points P is for Purpose and Points
Questions Q is for Questions
Know Your Audience K is for Know Your Audience
Research R is for Research
Interactive I is for Interactive
Big Bang Beginning B is for Big Bang Beginnings
Flow F is for Flow
Neat Package N is for Neat Package
Meaningful Conclusion M is for Meaningful Conclusion
Overcoming Obstacles O is for Overcoming Obstacles
Visual Aids V is for Visual Aids
Action A is for Action
You Y is for You
Storytelling S is for Storytelling
Timing T is for Timing
Less is More L is for Less is More
Words W is for Words
Humor H is for Humor
Delivery D is for Delivery
Zen Z is for Zen
Entertaining Speeches
Entertaining (19 Elements)
Move through these elements for Entertaining Speeches:
Purpose and Points P is for Purpose and Points
Know Your Audience K is for Know Your Audience
Big Bang Beginning B is for Big Bang Beginnings
Humor H is for Humor
Jokes J is for Jokes
Storytelling S is for Storytelling
Overcoming Obstacles O is for Overcoming Obstacles
Go Big or Go Home G is for Go Big or Go Home
Character Voices C is for Character Voices
Flow F is for Flow
Unexpected U is for Unexpected
Neat Package N is for Neat Package
Meaningful Conclusion M is for Meaningful Conclusion
You Y is for You
Timing T is for Timing
Less is More L is for Less is More
Words W is for Words
Delivery D is for Delivery
Zen Z is for Zen
Persuasion Speeches
Persuasion (22)
Purpose and Points P is for Purpose and Points
Know Your Audience K is for Know Your Audience
Emotion E is for Emotion
Questions Q is for Questions
Research R is for Research
Big Bang Beginning B is for Big Bang Beginnings
Overcoming Obstacles O is for Overcoming Obstacles
Flow F is for Flow
Neat Package N is for Neat Package
Meaningful Conclusion M is for Meaningful Conclusion
Action A is for Action
Storytelling S is for Storytelling
You Y is for You
Visual aids V is for Visual Aids
Timing T is for Timing
Interactive I is for Interactive
Humor H is for Humor
Less is More L is for Less is More
Words W is for Words
X-seeding Xpectations X is for X-seeding Xpectations
Delivery D is for Delivery
Zen Z is for Zen
Inspirational Speeches
Inspiration (22)
Purpose and Points P is for Purpose and Points
Action A is for Action
Big Bang Beginning B is for Big Bang Beginnings
Character Voices C is for Character Voices
Delivery D is for Delivery
Emotion E is for Emotion
Flow F