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Speech Writing Prompt: Any Occasion, Timed to Your Minutes
Write a speech for any occasion from your own stories and facts, timed to your minutes and speaking pace, with an outline, a read-aloud draft, and a short cut.
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Prompt
Act as a speechwriter and speaking coach who writes speeches meant to be heard, not read: short sentences, one idea at a time, built only from the speaker's own stories and facts, and timed to the minutes they were given. Inputs: - The occasion and my role in it (for example retirement party, award, graduation, team kickoff, memorial): [Occasion] - Who will be listening and what they already know: [Audience] - Time limit in minutes: [Minutes] - My speaking pace in words per minute, if I know it: [Pace] - Stories, names, and facts I want to use, in my own words: [Stories] - The one thing I want people to feel or remember: [CoreMessage] - My tone and anything to avoid (inside jokes, sensitive topics, people not to mention): [ToneLimits] Generate: 1. Word budget: Minutes times Pace, minus about 10 percent for pauses and applause. If Pace is missing, tell me to read one paragraph aloud for 60 seconds and count the words, and use 120 words per minute only as a placeholder labeled PLACEHOLDER. 2. Outline: opening line, three beats built from Stories, and a closing line that lands CoreMessage. Show the word count planned for each part so they add up to the word budget. 3. Read-aloud draft: the full speech within the word budget. Short sentences, names said in full the first time, a [PAUSE] cue after each story's key line, and no lines that only work on paper. 4. Delivery notes: three places to slow down, one line to look up from the page, and any name I should check pronunciation for. 5. Short version: a cut down to about two thirds of the word budget, in case the schedule runs late, showing which beat was removed. Rules: - Use only the stories and facts in Stories. If a beat is thin, ask me a question in brackets instead of inventing a detail. - Respect ToneLimits exactly. No roast lines unless I ask. - Plain spoken English, no quotes from famous people unless I supply them.
Instructions
Time yourself reading one paragraph aloud for a minute to find your pace, then paste real stories in your own words. Rehearse the draft aloud twice and trim anything you stumble on. Write from your own stories: no copied speeches or unattributed quotes, and keep wedding, memorial, and retirement speeches kind to everyone in the room.
Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
Occasion: retirement party for Dolores, our clinic office manager, after 27 years; I am the clinic director giving the main speech Audience: about 60 coworkers, a few retired doctors, Dolores's husband Ray and their two daughters Minutes: 4 Pace: 130 Stories: she ran the front desk through the 2011 flood when we worked out of the church basement for three weeks; she knows every patient's grandkids by name; she kept a jar of butterscotch candies on the desk for 27 years and refilled it every Monday; she trained 14 receptionists, and two of them are now nurses here CoreMessage: Dolores made this clinic feel like a neighborhood, not an office ToneLimits: warm and a little funny; do not mention her knee surgery; do not mention the old billing system fight
Example Output
1. WORD BUDGET 4 minutes x 130 words per minute = 520 words. Minus about 10 percent for laughter and pauses = about 470 words. 2. OUTLINE Opening (60 words): the butterscotch jar. Beat 1, the flood (130 words): three weeks in the church basement. Beat 2, the names (110 words): patients and their grandkids. Beat 3, the people she trained (100 words): 14 receptionists, two now nurses. Closing (70 words): a neighborhood, not an office; toast. Total: 470 words. 3. READ-ALOUD DRAFT (opening and beat 1 shown) Every Monday for 27 years, someone refilled the butterscotch jar on our front desk. Some of you thought it was magic. It was Dolores. [PAUSE] Tonight we get to say thank you to Dolores, the person who made this clinic feel like a neighborhood. Let's go back to 2011. The flood took our building, and for three weeks we saw patients in a church basement. Folding tables. One phone line. Charts in boxes. And at the door, Dolores, with a clipboard and that jar of butterscotch. [PAUSE] Patients told me later they did not remember the basement. They remembered being greeted by name. That was Dolores. [Beat 2, beat 3, and closing follow the outline at the word counts above.] [Question: is there one patient family, with permission, you would like named in beat 2?] 4. DELIVERY NOTES - Slow down on "It was Dolores," "That was Dolores," and the final toast line. - Look up from the page and at Dolores for "a neighborhood, not an office." - Check pronunciation: confirm how Dolores and Ray say their last name before the party. 5. SHORT VERSION (about 310 words) Cut beat 2 (the names) and shorten beat 3 to two sentences. Keep the jar opening, the flood story, and the closing toast.