I think the most interesting, surprising, and notable encounter I've had where the audience I invoked didn't match up with the requirements for an actual audience was when I was giving a speech about the Boeing 737 MAX as part of a storytelling competition, and since the topic I was talking about wasn't really a "story", but rather news and events that had happened recently, it didn't match up at all with the intended audience. The guidelines for the competition specified that it had to be a fictional story, like one taken from a novel, for example. So the audience invoked certainly didn't match up at all with the audience addressed that time. Fortunately, I was able to try again about a year later and did a much better job at invoking the correct audience.
Looking back upon that incident, I realized that I had chosen the completely wrong topic for a presentation like that. What I had been talking about--the crashing of several 737 MAX airplanes--was not at all considered a "fictional story", and was instead more of a current events presentation, which is not at all what I was going for. I should have chosen something from a book, for example, and that was what I ended up doing in the second try. I think that if I had just had the right interpretation and idea of what the prompt for the storytelling competition was asking for, I could've done a much better job at invoking the correct audience.
And that's all for Writer's Journal #13.
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