“The RoseBouquet”

Barbara Good, of http://Barbara-Good-Books.com, suggested last week after reading my article “To Which Reader Are We Writing,” that there is another category we can write for - one I didn’t really cover. It is the reader who knows nothing about the topic we are introducing, but who will give us a read if we make it interesting and easy to understand. She’s right! It is quite a delightful challenge to write for such readers.

That reminds me; at SiteSell, in regards to the SiteBuildIt! method of building websites (SiteBuildIt!) Ken Evoy teaches that we should write for the reader who is seeking information on a particular topic. If you build a website on a topic or area of expertise that you know well, and have the right search engine optimization, the readers (and buyers) who are hunting for exactly that information will come to your site. They are all ready for you to teach them and often, to sell to them.

Clearly I need to update that article to include the uniformed reader and the seeker for knowledge. I wouldn’t be surprised bur that there are many more categories. Can you suggest some more to me before I tackle my revision?

I have a new web design client in my new church where I attend. I hope to get a little start on that today. It’s one of those jobs I can do from home in the evening.

I did have an interesting little job yesterday. An older gentleman, one of my Dad’s friends lives in a retirement condo here in the city now. I had promised to deliver some boxes of old newspapers to the archives which is located in the basement of that complex, so when he emailed Sunday night to say the had bought a laptop and needed me to come show him how to use it, I decided to squeeze all of that into one afternoon yesterday.

He’d got a good deal buying it from someone passing through who needed cash, and he was pleased to hear it had wireless, so he could sit in his recliner to use it instead of sitting in the chair in his bedroom. So the first challenges he gave me were to find out how big his hard drive was in there, and how to set up the wireless to work. I took a while at it, and finally realized that I was stumped and had to call Sasktel his/our ISP. The man there walked me through it after confirming that the gentleman was really authorizing me to have this private information on his behalf. He had to do something from his end to make the router for his desktop allow the laptop to latch on by wireless. Once he did that, we were flying.

He wanted his MS Office 2003 installed, so I did that.

Then to make sure his sound and video worked properly I took him to the website of my favourite online radio station. He spotted their links to a free online Bible School, and wanted that, so I signed him up to that as well, and showed him how to listen to the lessons or sermons. The gentleman was as tickled as a little kid with a new toy.

It was time for him to go down to the dining hall for supper, and for me to leave, but he figures he’ll call me again to come in as his techie.

Well, there’s much more going on, I can only give you a few glimpses. This morning I raced around to pickup another woman’s laptop, which I am to fix. We’ll see where that takes me.

Yesterday I started - what I hope will be a good article for the ‘meet the heroine of my book’ series. It’s on imagination and visualization, but I can see that it needs more work than I can pull off today, so that will have to go on hold a week or so.

You recall that next Tuesday is the last one of the month, so it is time for the Short Story Game. I feel like I’m playing all by myself, and not getting much feedback I’m not sure if my spontaneous stories are going over like lead balloons, or what. However, I think it is developing a skill at short story writing, so I don’t want to give up just yet. Will you join me? Next week I’ll be changing the ingredients again.

Meantime.. today’s article…will be one from a few years back, when I described the spring fever I was having. It’s back again!