Conversational Speeches: Appearing Spontaneous

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"So I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Ok, so Tracy, how do I make it spontaneous if I've written it, I've practiced it, I know the material, I'm good to go? Well, I'm going to tell you. You're in luck. There are several things that you want to do so that you can make this material, that you know so well, spontaneous. The first one that I want to talk about is actually know the material. And what I mean by that is, you're doing a speech on dogs, you need to know everything that you are going to talk about, about dogs. You're going to have researched it, you're going to know the material. Then I want you to learn the ideas of the speech. And what I mean by learning the ideas of the speech is how is it going to be presented? What is the concept of this? First I want to talk about dogs in general. Then I want to talk about a specific breed. Then I want to talk about whatever. What is the idea that you want to pass on to your audience. The next thing, don't memorize anything except two things: your first line and your last line. Don't memorize anything else or what will happen is you will get to where you start trying to pull up those words instead of presenting a spontaneous speech. And the last thing is you want to study the outline. Know the order, have a good understanding of how you're going to present it, but don't memorize any guts of the outline. I know I'm going to do A B C D, but beyond that, let it go. Just know the concept and the general idea."