Preparing for Toastmasters

My creativity is not just in illustrative form. Sometimes, my creativity takes the form of the public speaking practiced at my Toastmasters club, Norvic. Currently I am working on a Toastmasters advanced manual called Interpretive Reading, where I go through 5 projects to help me illustrate and properly present points written by others, whether the points take the form of a story, a report, or a speech developed by professional speech writers.

The project that I am working on is the final one in this manual, the Oratorical Speech. Here I must choose a famous speech to present, and use all of my skills to bring the speech to life. Upon first reading of the project, I thought that I might do Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream", mainly just because I liked the title. But after reading the actual speech, I felt no real connection to it, and thus I felt that I couldn't do the speech justice. I needed to look at many different speeches and find the one that I felt the strongest connection. That one turned out to be Steve Job's Commencement Address to the 2005 Stanford graduates. I was in love with his message, and since the project never said that I had to choose a speech from way back in the past, I decided to go with the one by Steve Jobs. All I have to do is edit the speech to fit within the time restrictions of the Toastmasters project. And that was my bit of creativity today.