I read a diddly of an article on Poynter Online yesterday. (If you haven't had a chance to hop over to this site, I think you'd find it to be a great resource. It's geared for journalists, but bloggers, fiction writers and the like would benefit from it's content. But I digress...)
The article I read was called, "What Inaugural Speeches Can Teach Writers." It compares Obama's speech to past presidents and then breaks down portions of their speech to show that with each sentence you can gain momentum, so that when the timing is right, you can deliver the final punch, wowing your audience.
There's also a few exercises at the end of the article. Nifty. Read the article. What do you think about it? What are some paragraphs you've noticed in other speeches? How do you gain momentum in your writing?
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