How to Write a Hook for a Speech?

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   A hook is the moment in a speech that completely commands the audience's attention. Be simple, centered, and concise with the informative tips provided by an accomplished writer. "Hello my name is Eric Shapiro. I'm a partner in a ghostwriting firm called Ghostwriters Central. We attend to the custom ghostwriting and editing needs of a wide variety of clients all over the world. Today, we are going to discuss how you write a hook for a speech. In the course of speech writing, it's very important to have that instance, that idea, that moment in the speech that completely commands the audience's attention. So, when it comes to formulating a hook, you have to first of all be very simple, very centered and very concise. A hook cannot be a long narrative. It can't be a detailed, statistical analysis. It has to be something that you can hold in the palm of your hands and communicate it very quickly and very sharply. So, sometimes a shocking statistic can be a hook. If you are trying to communicate a political argument or a social argument, if you present a statistic that just completely commands attention not known to most people. Something novel and it can take you four seconds to get it across but it could set the tone for the entire speech just based on the impact it has. So, you know factual information is very good, 'cause facts are very brief and tightly. Also quotes are very good as hooks because they have the same sort of concision as facts, they are very organized. You know you can get them across real efficiently. So, you get a famous quote ideally you know something that is not known to most people cause you don't want to seem cliche or generic. But definitely something that has forceful ideas behind it. It has something that will resonate with people emotionally because once you get that hook across essentially you are disarming the audience. And you are bringing them over to your emotional space and point of view. So keep it short, concise, factual, quote, simple and your hook will operate in such a way as to command full attention. Again my name is Eric Shapiro and I am with a company called Ghostwriters Central in Los Angeles. We attend to the writing and editorial needs of a wide variety of clients. And today, we've discussed how to work on a hook for a speech."

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