The November 2024 issue of Toastmaster magazine has an article by Mackenzie Eldred on pages 26 and 27 titled Finding Speech Topics in Unusual Places. Her seven examples are:
Mail Problems
Burger Love
The Chicken Soup of Life
Finding Speech Inspiration on the Flight Deck
Lessons From the Attic
Reaching the Summit
Reflecting on My Hair Journey
But there is more unusual place to look. It is a Learning Network article at the New York Times which was updated on August 2, 2023, titled 525 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing. There are 37 categories. This article is a gigantic collection of speech topic ideas! And when you click on a prompt, you are taken to a brief Learning Network article – a starting point for your research. I blogged about it in a post on May 15, 2024 titled My workshop presentation at the 2024 District 15 Toastmasters Conference on May 18, 2024 about Creating or Finding Great Table Topics Questions.
The cartoon was adapted from one at Openclipart.
