Introduction to Voice and Audience

 This piece stood out because it was aimed well for the audience. It was a posting about what my name means to me, and since everyone was writing and reading something similar, I altered my voice accordingly. The writing was more public, yet still focused, and since it was only a quick exercise, many of the lines are informal like,

At this point, I could continue on about how both "Kimberly" and "Rose" are old-lady names but I never could captivate an audience by just complaining. Instead, I learned to bring up solutions: nicknames.

The point of this casual writing is to pull the readers along as I would in a real conversation. This also serves to ease the reading along, since my audience was reading so many of these things.