Writer’s Desk: How Speechwriters Do It

With the election, and (who knows?) maybe a gut-punch to democracy itself, just around the corner, it seems like the right time to get some writing advice from people who have to churn out a lot of words on demand at high velocity and with extreme precision: Speechwriters.

Scholastic gathered together a bunch of them, from Paul Begala to Bob Shrum, and boiled down their advice to a fewpoints, explained at length here. Here’s the upshot:

Get to the Point — Quick! Make It Look Easy Make ’em L...