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My name rhymes with "Lisa," I live in Midland, Texas, because it's warm and the mortgage is cheap, and of course this is my natural hair color. Of course! The EGE--The Ever-Gorgeous Earl--is my husband of 35 years. I have the best job in the world because I get to call up artists and ask them nosy questions and then write about them. I also stitch, podcast, blog, and then, in my spare time, do it all some more.

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Monday, March 14, 2011

Writing for an Audience

I wrote about this--about knowing your audience before you write--over on my blog at CreateMixedMedia.com, The Creative Life. It's a continuation of my posts about writing for publication, so you might want to go back and read the earlier one if you missed it.

I'm going to try to post a reminder here when I have a new post over there, but since I'm posting over there at least three times a week, there's a good chance that I'm not always going to remember. You know how that goes. At any rate, they're not duplicate postings--I may cross post at some point, but I don't really see why I'd do that: it's never like I don't have anything to say. Snort.

I'm going to try to get some photos up here, but I don't know when that will be. I'm trying, really I am, but in less than 48 hours, we have The Tax Meeting. Yiiiii. I have major stress issues about income tax filing, for reasons I can't begin to fathom. Was I tortured by IRS agents in a previous life? Do I secretly have a huge stash of unreported income I don't know about? Am I a member of a huge international crime family involved in nefarious financial dealings? Somehow I suspect that if any of these were true I'd be leading a much more exciting and hair-raising life than I actually am, but something has to account for the terror I experience every year when we go to have our taxes done. Eeeeeee.

So keep me in your thoughts on Wednesday, please. I hope my head doesn't catch fire between now and then.

4 comments:

Anhelo said...

Agh, good post. I've been feeling somehow stressed about this, cause I have a number of blogs I write for different audiences. And by reading you I just felt close to decide which ones will have to go soon. I suffer of blogaholism.

Kathy said...

I actually did go through over a year of IRS trauma due to their error (though they tried to make it my error). Lots of phone calls, threats, mailing of copies of cancelled checks ensued culminating in me threatening to call the AG of my state to let him help sort it out. Miraculously, it was resolved within a few days of invoking his name. That's why I never ever do my own taxes. I need a back up, even though it wasn't applicable in this case. I'm getting my stuff together tomorrow. I always shake in my shoes too.

Carol Leigh said...

Oh, sure, SEND me to CreateMixedMedia.com so I can while away yet ANOTHER hour or so perusing all the cool things that are on that site. So that I can read about artists, see what they're doing, follow THEIR recommended links, and end up spending money on must-have art materials and books of inspiration. You sent me on a roller-coaster ride, with dips and loops and moments of exhilaration and the indescribable sensation of having so many ideas that my head feels like it's going to explode. I'm now walking away from the ride, but tomorrow morning will find me rushing back to get in line again, eager for more punishment, er, INSPIRATION! --Carol Leigh

Ricë said...

Sorry, Carol. Or maybe not? The EGE adores roller coasters!

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