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earthlingSpeaking on Climate by Rune Kier Nielsen, 2024 By analyzing speeches and how they worked, social anthropologist and professional speechwriter Rune Kier Nielsen breaks down nine common flaws of climate rhetoric and how to fix them in this thorough, engaging guide to speechwriting toward climate action.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpeechWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpeechWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a>

RS, Author, Novelist, ProsaistDespite the politics in the article I quote below, this post is for <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writers</a> and is about <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a>. The non-political point of why I copied this from a Politico newsletter is apparent in the last paragraph, so skip to that if you must.<blockquote>Looking out at the crowd assembled around a rectangular-shaped series of tables, Biden recounted how he brought his children to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany after each turned 14. He then made a fist with his right hand, lifted it ever so slightly and pounded the lectern in front of him. “I wanted them to see,” he yelled.Who knows. It may have been for effect. Biden has told the story before. But at that moment, he didn’t seem to be playing the role of statesman or president, so much as a moral arbiter. He seemed genuinely furious. The crowd before him froze.“I lost it emotionally and started tearing up,” said AMY SPITALNICK, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, who was there. “I’m the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. The pain in that room was palpable.”I’ve thought a lot about those five words since then — “I wanted them to see” — and the simple power of that basic idea. To see. To understand. To believe. </blockquote><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/write" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#write</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingCommunity</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writersOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/publicspeaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#publicspeaking</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speech</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/speechwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speechwriting</a>

underoak<a href="https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@workingclasshistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/@kevinrns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kevinrns</a> Long good read for a soggy Sunday. I especially liked the references to an FDR speech. Suspect Biden’s SOTU speech writers did some cribbing. <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/presidents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#presidents</a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/speechwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speechwriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/fdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fdr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biden</a>

Katie MacBrideI don’t know if anyone is on this app today but I’m working on writing this talk I’m supposed to give next week and I sure could use any <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/speechwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speechwriting</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/advice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#advice</a>. I’m so used to writing for readers and, separately, blathering off the cuff verbally, but I’m a little overwhelmed at the idea of combining the two. Hit me with your best <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/presentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#presentation</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/tips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tips</a>

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