Writing on the Air

A small step for just about anybody, a large step for me. Okay, okay, that doesn’t really work. Nonetheless, on Wednesday evening, for the very first time in Francois Pointeau’s little life, I entered a radio studio and took part in a live show. I didn’t do much. I looked up a couple of advertisements, to be read live on the air by one of the two co-hosts. He asked me if I wanted to read them, and I shied out. Admittedly I was a bit intimidated by the large microphone, and I’m going to have to get used to it. I think this issue is not a real problem.

The show: Writing on the Air with Dillon McKinsey & Lee Davis, is a News & Public Affairs program of Public Radio station KOOP, Austin, Texas, and is broadcast on Wednesdays from 6 to 7 PM (CST) at 91.7 FM. They interview writers! Which, to me, is exciting. For the most part, I stood and watched and listened. Which is exactly what I wanted to do: Observe and take as much of it in as I could.

It think me and radio are going to have a fun relationship. I’m looking forward to take part in the show, and learn as much as I can from Dillon and Lee. I hope to be able to interview writers whom I enjoy reading, those few writers I have published and hope to publish, such as Elva Maxine Beach and Robin Blackburn, and possibly even be interviewed myself as F.K. Needles by the co-hosts.

Wherever this goes, I’m looking forward to it!