How to plan for speechwriting spontaneity

John Kenneth Galbraith rewrote every speech 12 times. And then ...

Spontaneity comes later. Argonne National Laboratory speechwriter Elizabeth Austin tells us, โ€œWhen Sylvia Hewlett was a graduate student at Harvard many years ago, her faculty advisor was the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith, a famously riveting public speaker. His secret, he once told her, was that he rewrote every speech 12 times. Then, he said, โ€˜I introduce a note of spontaneity in the thirteenth draft.โ€™โ€ โ€”DM

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