Speechwriting

Movies have been supplying me with topics for my speechwriting blog lately. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote on speechwriting lessons in writing powerful openings from Water for Elephants. Today, it’s Mel Gibson’s new film, The Beaver. In The Beaver, Gibson plays terminally depressed toy-company CEO Walter Black who finds a beaver puppet in [...]

My husband and I recently took in the new movie, Water for Elephants, starring a dreamy-looking Robert Pattinson and a looking-too-old-for-him Reese Witherspoon. The movie belongs to German actor Christoph Waltz, however, who plays August, the brutal circus owner/ringmaster desperate to hold onto a dying business at all costs, while his wife, Marlena (Witherspoon), falls [...]

At last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Barack Obama had a great time making fun of “Birthers” with a clever opening music video which prominently featured a flashing “long-form” birth certificate and images of baseball, soldiers, children and more set to “I Am An American.” Following this, he said he’d go one step further [...]

Sometimes a topic captures my imagination, and (don’t tell), it’s not even about speechwriting. What’s a speechwriting blogger to do? Risk damaging your brand, warns my husband. But writing is an endeavor of the heart that responds to its own inner callings. So, this week and next I’m on official holiday from writing about speechwriting. I hope [...]