A good speech or a professional speech can make public speaking easy

A good speech can express love, sway public opinion, entertain a family or hold a huge audience spellbound. A professional speaker will use his head to make it sound as though he is speaking from the heart. Public speaking is the art of being able to hold an audience enthralled, whatever the issue, wherever the venue. Like speechwriting itself it is an acquired art.

Some people are born with the gift of oratory; others must struggle to become articulate. There are professional speechwriters who write lectures for professors, homilies for clergyman and spiels for speakers. Then, of course, there are civil servants who write statements for politicians and orations for statesmen. There are wedding toasts, business addresses and funeral eulogies. A speech can express concern and compassion and be delivered with restraint or with passion. A speech is about reaching, perhaps teaching, your audience.

A speech must be suited to the occasion and to those who will hear it. You should never presume to write down to an audience but it is wonderful if your words can be uplifting. Speeches are more about content than length. Completing a speech with a relevant toast helps you end on a happy note.