Writing and Audience

In this Joyce Carol Oates Teaches the Art of the Short Story | Official Trailer | MasterClass video, Oates says, "There are two ways of looking at writing. One way is that you are telling a story ery transparently. The other is that you are telling a story with language and language is the point."

Is this true of spoken word too? Robert Mackenzie in speak documentary pointed out that the difference between acting and public speaking is that in acting, you engage the actor while in public speaking, you engage the audience. In At Middleton

Lesson Number Four of Radio -

"know your audience.

It's all about making a connection.

That's the beauty of radio.

Something goes on between you

and the people out there.

It's living and changing

moment to moment.

You can't see it,

but you can feel it."

Isnt that amazing? That the engagement is with a person who cant see you, whom you cant see.