Persuasive speech writing can affect change.

Persuasive speech writing can quite adeptly incorporate the idea of music to write by. It can also affect change if you know just how to phrase your writing in the best possible way to garner trust and connectivity with your readers and/or listeners.

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I have the pleasure, from time to time, of attending creative writing retreats. One of the retreats I attended had an hour set aside to write based on a dual prompt – write a persuasive speech or letter and somehow incorporate old school R&B music into it.

Creativity was definitely key to finding my sense of flow for this piece of persuasive speech writing. I thought of a few lines of R&B music, and then I realized that I liked the idea of “old school” a bit more than the thought of R&B music in general. So, I worked out a way to include both concepts in my persuasive speech.

It is important to always note the adaptability of a piece of writing. Sometimes paragraphs can be turned into poems, essays into stories, lyrics into novels. Finding these ways to instill various genres throughout other modes of writing is one of the keys to getting past writer's block.

Think of persuasive speech writing as another step in the persuasive process. All writing is in effect persuasive, as you always want to gain the attention of at least one person – yourself. You want to persuade yourself, and often others (namely, your readers), that you are capable of greatness. Conversely, you may dissuade yourself from ever wanting to write again. If the latter occurs, do not fret! Just take your dissatisfaction and turn it into an anthem of your discontent and frustration. Let your emotions take you over. Never let anything derail you from your writing dream.

Read on for an example of persuasive speech writing and see how you can use dual prompts or triple decker writing prompts of your own to lead into your own persuasive examples:

Yesterday all our troubles seemed so far away. These old school problems are doing nothing to lessen the load that is upon us. We need to develop a hunger, a thirst, for the traditions and history that are constantly being radiated from music. People don’t seem to know or care to understand the intricacies and the patterns that can be created from what seems old and broken down, but what is truly mesmerizing and stupendously thought-provoking.

History is littered with aggravating tales of ineptitude/misunderstandings on the part of more than just a select few. We must harness an appreciation of what seems like a lost cause and garner newfound love and admiration for what it entails.

The music that so many young people listen to nowadays has its moments – those that are good and those that lack in maturity and depth. There are artists who personify emotion and these artists should not be relegated to the backdrop of our music scene as they often are.

So, I propose that this is how we do it. We’ve come to the end of the road in terms of foregoing the nurturing of great artistry. Dispel notions of inadequacy. We need to find music that promotes a more literate and well-rounded society. Children must be exposed to the music of old – not just one, three, or five years ago, but ten, twenty, thirty, or more years in the past.

Just recently, I heard a song performed on American Idol that many reviewers commented was quite old. When I think of a song as being old, by today’s standards I think of at least a year. I was disheartened to learn that the song was only released as a single eight months prior to its being performed on this show.

With the constant wave of technology upon us, it is most certainly okay that new and exciting things are always in our midst. However, the quickness with which songs, people, places, etc. become obsolete is thoroughly terrifying. I know that the saying goes that all good things have to come to an end, or everyone has his/her fifteen minutes of fame, but why? Why must good things end? If we want, we can keep good things going. We just have to work at it. Why must everyone only be relegated to fifteen minutes of fame? Let people have the spotlight and if you don’t like them or their purpose, tune them out, and eventually they will disappear into the sunset (at least from your perspective, if not in reality). Nothing should become completely obsolete; rather, everything should have its moment, its time to shine, and then be a fond (or not so fond) memory that people look back on in years to come with appreciation, or even regret.

Nurture positive thinking. Relish moments as they come and don’t wish them away before you’ve had the chance to take them in fully. If it is important to you to live life to the fullest and use every moment wisely, then give others the same chances, the same sense of pure abandonment for not caring what anyone else says, does, or thinks.

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