PLAY PATIENCE WITH YOUR NOTES
MAKE NOTES. HAVING GOT YOUR VARIOUS IDEAS AND ILLUSTRATIONS DOWN ON SCRABS OF PAPER, PLAY PATIENCE WITH THEM- TOSS THEM INTO SERIES OF RELATED PILES. THESE MAIN PILES TO REPRESENT, APPROXIMATELY, THE MAIN POINTS OF YOUR TALK. SUBDIVIDE THEM INTO SMALLER LOTS. THROW OUT THE CHAFF INTIL THERE IS NOTHING BUT NUMBER ONE WHEAT LEFT-AND EVEN SOME OF THE WHEAT WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO BE PUT ASIDE AND NOT USED. NO MAN, IF HE WORKS RIGHT, IS EVER ABLE TO USE BUT A PERCENTAGE OF THE MATERIAL HE GATHERS.
ONE OUGHT NEVER TO CEASE THIS PROCESS OF REVISION INTIL THE SPEECH HAS BEEN MADE- EVEN THEN HE IS VERY LIKELY TO THINK OF POINTS AND IMPROVEMENTS AND REFINEMENTS THAT OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN MADE.
A GOOD SPEAKE USUALLY FINDS WHEN HE FINISHES THAT THERE HAVE BEEN FOUR VERSIONS OF HIS SPEECH: THE ONE THAT HE PREPARD, THE ONE THAT HE DELIVERED, THE ONE THAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAID THAT HE DELIVERED, AND THE ONE THAT HE WISHES, ON HIS WAY HOME, THAT HE HAD DELIVERED.
REHEARSE
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TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO, HORACE WROTES:
" SEEK NOT FOR WORDS, SEEK ONLY FACT AND THOUGHT,
AND CROWDING IN WILL COME THE WORDS UNSOUGHT."
AFTER YOU HAVE IDEAS FIRMLY IN MIND, THEN REHEARSE YOUR TALK FROM BEFINNING TO END. DO IT SILENTLY, MENTALLY, AS YOU WALK THE STREET, AS YOU WAIT FOR CARS AND LIFTS. GET OFF IN A ROOM BY YOURSELF AND GO OVER IT ALOUD, GESTURING, SAYING IT WITH LIFE AND ENRGY. AS YOU PRACTISE, IMAGINE THERE IS A REAL AUDIENCE BEFORE YOU.
IMAGINE IT SO STRONGLY THAT WHEN THERE IS ONE, IT WILL SEEM LIKE AN OLD EXPERIENCE. THAT IS THE REASON WHY SO MANY CRIMINALS ARE ABLE TO GO TO THE SCAFFOLD WITH SUCH BRAVADO, THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE IT SO MANY THOUSAND TIMES IN THEIR IMAGINATION THAT THEY HAVE LOST FEAR OF IT. WHEN THE ACTUAL EXECUTION DOES TAKE PLACE, IT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH VERY OFTEN BEFORE.
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