7 Narrative Speech Writing Tips

Narrative speech tips for organizing and delivering a speech with good narrative public speaking topics.



1. Select carefully the story, lesson, moral, personal characteristic or experience you want to share with your audience. Perhaps your public speaking assignment have a time limit. This will force you to pick out one single significant story about yourself. And that's easier than you think when you take a closer look at these 10 easy ways to find narrative topics for public speaking.

2. When you've selected the speech topics it is time to gather the material. Decide on the point you want to make and your most wanted response. What do you want your audience to remember? What is the purpose, point, goal, lesson or plot? Another way to determine your speech thesis is wondering why the audience might think your presentation is valuable or important.

3. Develop all the action and drama you need to visualize the plot: the main events, characters, relevant details, steps or dialogues. Trigger your fantasy with my list of 40 example narrative speech topics.

4. Organize all text to speech in a strictly time ordered format. Make a story sequence. Relate a progression of events in a chronologically way. The audience will recognize this simple what I call a What Happened Speech Writing Outline, and can fully understand your goal. Another benefit: you will remember your key ideas better.

5. Build in transitions sentences, word or phrases, like the words then, after that, next, at this moment, etc.

6. Rehearse your narrative speech in front of a friend and ask opinions. Practice and practice again. Avoid to memorize your text to speech. When you're able to tell it in a reasonably extemp manner, it's okay.

7. Finally, try to make eye contact with your listeners when you deliver the narrative speech.



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