In Ross’ introduction he brings up to idea of audience invitation. That is to say there are different modes of inviting audience members to participate with a story, be it for television or within traditional oral history, and this means of invitation affects audience self-conception and activity. I would like to use this space to ponder how my final project could invite its reader to participate.

As a screenplay, my project would create a readerly, critical relationship. The relationship would be writer to reader, and the only resulting interaction would be editorial, having the reader provide feedback in a traditional means. Another possibility would be to write a screenplay and to have in its diegesis a blog that the protagonist uses. I could then set up a blog paralleling this diegetic one and invite my reader to comment upon the story there. The relationship, however, would be much maintained. It would be a critical relationship more than a dynamic one. A third possibility would be to have the story be told via a combination of mediums. The story could start out as screenplay, morph into graphic novel, all this still being on paper, and then transition into an online medium, using blogs and videos and outside material to amplify the affect of traveling with the protagonist as she experiences a vast realm of fandom she never knew existed, being that she is from the late 19th century. This would allow the reader to become a visual reader, a blogger and a viewer all in one and would deepen the types of interaction allowed.