fulfillment Q So, what do you mean? What you do is always compelling. Or, perhaps more accurately, attractive. It seems the purpose of writing alone, without intending there be an audience outside one's imagination, is any of many things, like getting to the edge and, most often, going over. Writing for a real audience also seems to be for many things, like getting close and sometimes closing. Wouldn't you agree the purpose depends in part on how big the intended audience is? Sometimes millions, perhaps most often just one. Do you mean that for a writer an audience of one can be fulfillment? What do you mean? It will always be of interest to know. 020330 ... lulie Writing for one is fulfilling. If the audience is interested that makes it doubly so, however it isn’t necessary. If what you write motivates, calms, angers, or helps you learn more about yourself, that is fulfillment. If we get to the edge in our writing, then go over, are we really going over? If we write about a murder, though we have committed none, do we become a murderer? I don’t go over the edge when I write, I save myself from going over the edge. I save others if I write instead of act. I become safe. If we write and draw others into us, we are exposing more than ourselves. We are giving others permission to expose themselves. If you are true in your writing, then what does it matter if the audience is one or one million? You never know how far your light is going to shine and on whom it will shine. Writing can be awfully painful, but not as much as doing. Do you feel more comfortable writing to millions? 020330 ... PeeT what is it for you? 130103 what's it to you? who go blather from