Scavenging the Audience

Ray, I agree with you that Jim and I really did have a conversation with the audience, rather than merely leacturing at, or performing for them. Personally, I love that type of two-way conversation, but I guess that's how I feel about my writing...that it is not a solo act. I am not dancing on an empty stage to an audience I can't even see beyond the footlights. My writing has always had its wellspring in conversations with people...their hopes, their fears, their worries about tomorrow. In a way, I am writing with my readers as much as for my readers.

That is what I particularly liked about that Inquiry....that it creates a forum for dialogue. I hope you do a lot more of them!