If
you have difficulty writing rousing speeches – which is a skill few have – it’s
probably best to not write a story that requires one. I watched something recently – I won’t say
what – but there was a point where the bad guys were winning and the good guys
needed a big, motivating speech. So the
hero stepped up and, said some words.
The good guys got fired up and went on to win the day, but in the real
world I sat there going, “What?” because after five seconds I had forgotten
what they said. This ultra-pivotal
speech sounded like something a student would say at a high school
graduation. Not to dismiss outright the
difficulties faced by youths, but hearing some eighteen year old talking about
life’s hardships doesn’t resonate with someone who wakes up each morning
wondering which random part of them will hurt today for an unknown reason.
This
big hero speech seemed like they wrote an outline of what they wanted the
speech to be about, and they just never got around to writing it so they just
read the outline. And the characters in
universe acted like it was a “We shall never surrender,” type of thing. Which broke whatever immersion I had in the
story.
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Image
from Pixabay.
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