Assignment 4.4 - Know Your Audience Analysis Blog Post

I found it surprising that I really had a hard time coming up with an answer for some of the questions like the, “if you could only keep one memory” question that was tough.  All of my family’s moments together hit my mind at once and I could not focus on just one.  Also I was surprised by the flood of emotions that some of the questions evoked, like the “being stranded on a desert island question, that one caused panic and helplessness at first, then determination that I would find a way to survive.  

Since this was week three, I had somewhat of an idea of the class as an audience, so I expected that the questions would be creative and interesting and imaginative.  I was not disappointed, they all had different elements of fiction and non-fiction, so I looked forward to a new one every day.  The superhero questions created that if only I could feeling, knowing all along that the power of having more than one of me would never be possible.  

Out of 33 questions, 7 of them related to TV, books, movies and superheroes, those were fun and really challenged my imagination.  Imagining being in “Third Rock from the Sun” made me laugh out loud.  Those characters were outrageous.   Several of them were what if questions that I would not of thought about if not for this assignment.  I will have to say that I never thought about my attitude having a color, or if I had the choice where would I have chosen to be born.    

After reading all of the responses to the questions, I realized that my writing needs to be more descriptive to capture the audience’s attention, so I think that this will impact my writing in a positive way.  I am constantly looking for ways to step up my game and so having this insight into everyone’s responses gave me an understanding of what my writing needs to be interesting.  I found myself looking for the most unique answers, knowing that we all have the same goals and values is good, but I was looking for that WOW factor in the answers.  My answers did not have that Wow factor but I will always look back at what I wrote and think I could have done better.