I gave my 5th speech from the storytelling manual at Toastmasters last night. The objective of the project was to tell a story based on a historical event, and make it entertaining.
Because of the date, I decided to tell the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. It was a little nerve-wracking because I had to keep my facts straight without any notes, but it seems my memory is better than I thought and I don’t think I made any slips. I even managed to remember the names of some of Guy’s co-conspirators. I’m usually terrible with names.
It was a 7 to 9 minute speech, and I came in at around 8 minutes so my “counting the words and dividing by 70″ approach to timing calculations seems to be working quite nicely.
