sentences tend to be shorter with more breaks between them, but the audience needs time to catch up as they adjust to an accent.
the 135 rule lasts as long as the first practice. it’s great for a first draft, but you might need to adjust once the speaker delivers the speech out loud. delivering a speech verbally, as opposed to silently reading it on paper or a computer screen, is critical because we all read at a different pace than we deliver.
every now and then a speaker will say something like, “i thought this speech was supposed to be 20 minutes, but it took me only 15 to read through 