Thursday, May 17, 2012

Talk one finished

But it feels long.

And the end feels lame.

But it's less clunky then it was a few hours ago.

Preacher guys, how long does 3,150 words take you to preach?

[I speak quickly.]

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  1. Depends.

    100 wpm if you're sticking to script. But if they're laughing at your wit, and you realise you left out a point you were going to make, and ad lib here and there, it goes down a bit. Say 20%.

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  2. Phil Campbell seems to do between 140 and 153 wpm.
    Andrew did 109 wpm on Sunday.

    I really hope I'm faster than 100wpm our we'll all be pretty bored.

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  3. We found 300 or so words was about 3 minutes when we were doing deputation.

    Simone, I talked to a friend of mine a couple of nights back and it turns out she's on the organising committee. At that time they only had 20 registered! They're hoping for a lot more to register in the last two weeks. BTW she sounded excited that you were coming.

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  4. Great! Who is that?

    I didn't expect it to be big. I was thinking 30-40 which they are probably on track to get. Any talks I write I usually end up giving at least 6 times in the end, which is pretty good value (I imagine missionaries have a better reuse rate!) Songs are better value than talks. They can get thousands of uses.

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    2. I didn't count how many some of our stories got used (we write 3 minute modules and string them together as appropriate). But a year's worth of deputation equals quite a lot of times, even though we had more than a dozen modules.

      My friend is Jeanette Loxton, we've been friends since school years. We were both at St Andrews in Toowoomba as kids.

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  5. My last talk was about 125 wpm which is about average for me I think. So at that rate I'd take 26 minutes to preach your manuscript.

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  6. Hey Simone, I may have missed an earlier post, but what are you speaking on? Julie is away at the moment at a womens retreat giving 3 talks on Gen 1-3... was feeling very nervous after having put in a lot of effort. Giving talks is fairly new for her, let alone in Spanish.

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    1. Talks in Spanish. That's a tough gig.

      I'm doing 3 in john - jn3, 6, 11.

      I've never had to do talks in a series before. Struggling to not be repeating myself. The passages are very similar.

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