A Singular Profession - The Strange Life of a Freelance Speech Writer
Some years ago I read a startling statistic. It suggested that every 24 hours in the United States 100,000 speeches are given. It seemed an unlikely number. Surely not that many. Not every day. More...

Whose Voice Is It Anyway?
I am often asked how do I write in the "voice" of my clients? The short answer is that I don't even try. Here's the scoop - an extract for an article I wrote dealing with that very question. More...

Less is More
Keep it simple. That's a motto that applies in spades for speech writing. Remember you are writing for the ear, not the page.The following is a speech I wrote in about an hour. More...

Some stories just come as a gift
The following is an extract of a speech I wrote for a senior bureaucrat in a government agency. She was addressing a Board of Trade, explaining the ins and outs of new government legislation. More...

When The Shit Is Hitting The Fan….
You would think that CEOs would "get it" by now. That we live in an MTV-CNN'd world, where people get their news in short sound bites or from Larry King. Where rumor is taken for truth, and perception for reality. Think Nixon. Think Clinton. More...

 

 

 

 

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