Speech writer

Speech writer

One of the golden rules about speech writing, is that you never complain that your boss does not do it himself or actively publicize the fact that you are a speech writer. Simply because, it's a speech writer's job to write speeches for other people.

But ah well, it's my blog and I say what I want. I am officially a speech writer, but I'm totally fine with the need for others to hire other people to write their speeches.

Today was horrible and I took for the team and boss. We had to use a personal story, much to the dissatisfaction of the third party. Wasn't that she outrightly said 'no', but that she was uncomfortable.

And darn it... if it wasn't the case that she is so *popular in this instance, or that her story relates completely to the theme of our message, we wouldn't have *used her.

Now, I feel uncomfortable too. Maybe a night's rest and I will be able to think of a way to achieve those so called win-win situations.

Some minor changes in me...

I find that I'm now a much more patient person, working in a super detail oriented job and slow paced environment.

I now type two spaces after each period, as per speech writer's protocol.

I now have the urge to speak and write in Singlish, given the uptight language we use all the time here.

I have a strange urge to want to find out more about famous speech writers... and I'm going to look out for Peggy Noonan's books (Reagan's speech writer).

Update: We did manage to find something else to say about her after all - O.D.