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mary rosenblum
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Hello, all.
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mary rosenblum
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I hope you had a lovely
Thanksgiving and aren't too 'shopped out' after the weekend. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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Malls are a great place to
people-watch this time of year. Good place to study body language, store up
details that will help bring characters to life later on in your stories.
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Try a mall food court. :-)
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andi
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my thanksgiving was good in
October
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mary rosenblum
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Ah, yes, you all in Canada are
way ahead of us. :-)
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geezer
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Mary , did you see the pictures
of the green Golden Retriever puppy?
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mary rosenblum
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I heard about it. They've been
engineering green cats, so I'm not surprised they tried a dog.
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mary rosenblum
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The cats have jellyfish genes
inserted, as I remember.
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mary rosenblum
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They have some that glow in
the dark, too.
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mary rosenblum
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Bioluminescent genes...that
may be the jellyfish gene...Can't remember now.
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geezer
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Supposedly this one is natural
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mary rosenblum
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You'll have to show me a DNA
analysis before I believe THAT, geeze.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me Mary Rosenblum LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today we’re
talking about the interview. If you’re new here, remember that you need to
click on the Ask a Question button or the word bubble next to the red
question mark at the top of the screen, or use the ask a question icon in
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mary rosenblum
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I wanted to talk about
interviews today because it's something you use for both nonfiction and
fiction...
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and learning to do a good
interview is a very worthwhile skill.
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In nonfiction, it allows you
to bring expertise to an article where you have no personal expertise...
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and since most nonfic editors
want 'original source material'...ie, they don't want a lot of internet and
library research...
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mary rosenblum
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the interview is usually your
easiest route to original source material.
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mary rosenblum
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You can do it via email, snail
mail, phone, or in person.
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mary rosenblum
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And most of the time, unless
you are asking someone who already gets a lot of media attention, the
person you ask will be delighted to cooperate.
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mary rosenblum
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I think we all want our
fifteen minutes of fame. :-)
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gwanny
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how do you go beyond the simple
5 W's and an H?
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mary rosenblum
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You mean, what where when why
and how?
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mary rosenblum
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Oh yes, and who?
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LOL
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mary rosenblum
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Well, that's where novice
interviewers generally run into difficulties...
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mary rosenblum
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because while someone may be
thrilled the first time you ask for that interview, by the third 'just a
couple more questions' you tend to get snapped it.
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mary rosenblum
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You simply do not know what to
ask before you have 'written' the piece, be it story or article.
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mary rosenblum
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No, I don't mean you have to
have a completed first draft...hard to do if your interview is the core for
that draft!
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mary rosenblum
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But what I do mean is that you
need to know what questions to ask before you sit down to do the interview.
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mary rosenblum
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You need to decide on your
slant if this is for a nonficiton article.
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mary rosenblum
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And it's a good idea to come
up with three or four slants, so that you can use that interview multiple
times for different magazines.
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THEN make a list of all the
questions you need to answer for that particular slant.
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mary rosenblum
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If you just do the general
questions, you'll come up with a great slant later and then realize you
asked the wrong questions.
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greenfaile
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Should you provide a list of
questions to the interviewee? How many questions would you think
reasonable? We don't want to wear out our welcome.
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mary rosenblum
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That really depends, green.
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mary rosenblum
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If you're doing a phone or
face to face interview, you will get a sense of when you need to conclude
the interview.
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mary rosenblum
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Your subject will get
restless.
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mary rosenblum
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But if you're sending a typed
list of questions, I'd keep it to something that your interviewee...
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can answer in a half hour
maybe.
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greenfaile
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I would think we should leave
the person with the knowledge we may like to contact them again. If we
think of more questions that is.
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mary rosenblum
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Always ask. Nearly everybody
will say 'fine'...
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but people ARE busy and it's
very easy to tell if someone is asking you...
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mary rosenblum
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things that he/she should have
asked the first time.
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janecj333
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I've always thought it important
to steer your interview with the answers you get from your expert...don't
remain a slave to your prepared list because the expert will take you in
directions vital to her/him
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mary rosenblum
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This is why I prefer a phone
or in person interview, jane.
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mary rosenblum
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If you have to use a typed
list, you are stuck with what you have prepared.
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mary rosenblum
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If you are chatting, you
should be prepared to follow interesting paths even if you didn't intend
to.
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mary rosenblum
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Get your important questions
answered, but try and follow that interesting path that opened up. You
never know where you'll end up. Might be better than what you planned.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me Mary Rosenblum LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today we’re
talking about the interview. If you’re new here, remember that you need to
click on the Ask a Question button or the word bubble next to the red question
mark at the top of the screen, or use the ask a question icon in order to
ask a question. Your regular send bar won’t reach me! You can also type
/ask in front of your question to reach me.
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sallyk
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What was your toughest
interview? How did you handle it?
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mary rosenblum
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Lessee...I'd say the Klamath
Falls Sheriff's department, Sally.
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mary rosenblum
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I had someone who was very
suspicious of my motives, they were coming in for some metro area media
heat about the meth lab problem down there...
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and I really really had to
work to get any rapport established at all, and it was real minimal.
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mary rosenblum
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Usually I do quite well in
that kind of situation but I just got someone who didn't work.
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mary rosenblum
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I got my basic questions
answered, but not much more.
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Happens.
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mary rosenblum
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Sometimes you and your
interviewee just don't click.
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greenfaile
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how about if you want two sides
to an issue? Dueling Experts. Any suggestions on how to do that?
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mary rosenblum
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One good way is to give on
expert a list of questions and then give the answers to your dueling
expert.
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mary rosenblum
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You can give the whole set
back to the first expert for rebuttals for that matter,
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then use the ones that work
for your article.
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mary rosenblum
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OR...you can give both experts
the same questions and compare answers.
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mary rosenblum
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You see that a lot in
newspaper pieces where two opposing experts are quoted.
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mary rosenblum
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Usually they are both
responding to the same question.
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paminnapa
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I find with interviewing its
good to ask an opinion question...lets them know you care what they think.
Also can break the ice
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mary rosenblum
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Interviewing is all about
rapport.
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mary rosenblum
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If you can relax with your
interviewee, get that person to relate to you, you'll find out SO much
more.
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mary rosenblum
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Being interested in what that
person does, genuinely interested, not just reading from a list of
questions, is the best way.
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mary rosenblum
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And of course, your personal
people-skills are going to determine how successful you are.
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mary rosenblum
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And that is much less
important, of course, if you are doing a by mail interview.
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mary rosenblum
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There, you really focus on
your questions.
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mary rosenblum
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You have to craft questions
that invite the interviewee to expand, to tell you more than you asked for,
to express his/her opinions.
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mary rosenblum
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You really want to avoid
questions that can be answered with a yes or no, that's for sure!
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mary rosenblum
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I use interviews mostly for
fiction.
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mary rosenblum
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I use 'em to obtain realistic
details and information that will assist the story.
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mary rosenblum
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I particularly like to
interview experts in the science I'm working with...
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becuase they will often tell
me about research that is ongoing and hasn't made the journals yet.
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janecj333
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as much as editors frown on
researched pieces, it's just as much of a problem finding credible
'experts'. Everyone has an opinion, and what's accepted today as fact by
some may be hotly contested by others, making interviews pointless, it
seems
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mary rosenblum
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Not at all, Jane.
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mary rosenblum
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Every expert is contested by
someone. If your editor thinks this particular person is a quack...
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she may reject your proposal.
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mary rosenblum
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But if she finds the subject
interesting and this is a credentialed expert, so what if someone
disagrees?
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mary rosenblum
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If you go back an look through
some of the anthropological articles in such esteemed mags as National
Geographic, you'll find, over the years, that information presented in one
issue...
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was considered to be incorrect
some years later.
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mary rosenblum
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That's why you query first.
:-)
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mary rosenblum
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Saves you time and the
disappointment of telling the person you interviewed that you don't have a
publisher.
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greenfaile
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Where do you seek out your
sources?
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mary rosenblum
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Under whichever rock they
inhabit, green. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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If I know someone who knows
someone who can give me an intro, I try that.
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mary rosenblum
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If I don't, I call 'em up and
ask for a half hour, giving my reasons.
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mary rosenblum
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Or I go knock on the door.
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geezer
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I'm surprised (or maybe not)
that editors don't like research. I don't like magazine articles because
they seem so shallow.
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mary rosenblum
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Oh, you misunderstand me,
geeze.
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mary rosenblum
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Editors DEMAND good research.
But they are not going to pay you a buck a word or better...
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mary rosenblum
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to give the reader information
that he/she could go find on the internet for herself!
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mary rosenblum
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And people like to hear it
'from the horse's mouth'. They like those quotes.
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mary rosenblum
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As to shallow, well, most of
the popular mags including the news mags are mainly for entertainment.
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mary rosenblum
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The slant is very narrow, the
information is very superficial.
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mary rosenblum
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Even the science mags, like
Science News, Discover, Scientific American are like that...
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mary rosenblum
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I use 'em to find the original
sources, the journal articles that believe me are NOT light reading.
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Those are not narrow!
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mary rosenblum
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oops...they ARE narrow, they
are not shallow.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me Mary Rosenblum LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today we’re
talking about the interview. If you’re new here, remember that you need to
click on the Ask a Question button or the word bubble next to the red
question mark at the top of the screen, or use the ask a question icon in
order to ask a question. Your regular send bar won’t reach me! You can also
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greenfaile
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lol...Have you ever had to deal
with a PR person and how do you get past that?
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mary rosenblum
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I haven't green, but I've
never had reason to try and interview someone who is enough of a celebrity
to have a PR person. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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Usually I'm talking to
scientists, university profs, cops, dog handlers, what have you.
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janecj333
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it would be nice if credentials
were an accurate indicator of skill, but that is not always the case
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mary rosenblum
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Nope. That's why you have to
decide if this person is an expert or if he/she has something interesting
to offer to the reader.
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mary rosenblum
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If it worries you too much
about whether or not this person is speaking God's Truth, I'd avoid
interviews! Darned hard to tell. :-)
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tolkienlvr
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Mary, RE: interviewing minors --
If a teen agrees to be interviewed and quoted and the parent also has
verbally agreed, how important do you think it is to get the parent's
consent in writing -- legally?
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mary rosenblum
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Gosh, tolkien, I'm not sure of
the legalities here, but your editor probably will be.
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mary rosenblum
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I've never gotten a release
form for any interview. For photos, yes.
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mary rosenblum
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It never hurts to have an okay
in writing in this litiginous society!
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mary rosenblum
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And come to think of it...I
have been interviewed a lot and have never signed a release form for an
inperson or phone interview...
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or an email interview that I
can recall.
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sallyk
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Do your editors have their own
photo release forms?
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mary rosenblum
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None of mine ever have. I just
type something up if I get a photo...
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mary rosenblum
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I give Mary Rosenblum
permission to use my photo in conjunction with my interview and a line for
the signature.
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mary rosenblum
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That assures 'em I won't post
it anywhere but with the interview.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me Mary Rosenblum LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today we’re
talking about the interview. If you’re new here, remember that you need to
click on the Ask a Question button or the word bubble next to the red question
mark at the top of the screen, or use the ask a question icon in order to
ask a question. Your regular send bar won’t reach me! You can also type
/ask in front of your question to reach me.
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mary rosenblum
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But it doesn't limit me to a
single use if I use the interview multiple places.
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justme
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Have you ever had occasion to
interview crime victims or law
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I've interviewed quite a few
people in law enforcement justme...
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justme
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professionals during
investigation of an open case
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mary rosenblum
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(the other half of Just's
question)...
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mary rosenblum
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and yes, I did ask about open
cases...
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but in that case, I was using
the material as background and would not be writing about a particular
case.
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They were very open with me.
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Even the DEQ...probably the
most suspicious group I ever approached!
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But once they decided I wasn't
a terrorist or a wacko, they were VERY forthcoming.
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justme
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Did they require you to sign a
nondisclosure form
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mary rosenblum
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No just, but these weren't
cases that I was going to write about specifically.
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And I was using them as
fiction background, I wasn't acting as a reporter for our local paper.
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tory
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DEQ?
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Department of Environmental
Quality ... I gather a lot of people hate them.
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andi
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what is a release form really
needed for
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mary rosenblum
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You need a release form to
prove to your editor that this person has given you permission to use
his/her image publicly.
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mary rosenblum
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If you are quoting an
interview, the permission is implied. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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But it wouldn't be a bad idea
just to have a release.
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mary rosenblum
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Now I know Nonfiction pros who
have had more than one case where an interviewee...
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mary rosenblum
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decided after the fact that
he/she did not want the interview published.
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And they simply pulled it.
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justme
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How about witnesses to criminal
activity
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mary rosenblum
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I have, just. But I would
never use someone's real name.
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And again, my interviewing is
not as a news reporter.
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mary rosenblum
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That is an ENTIRELY different
universe from either popular nonfiction or fiction interviewing.
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There are rules of conduct
there and I don't know 'em. Never worked for a newspaper as a reporter. :-)
Not what I do.
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justme
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Sorry, I guess I'm in the wrong
field
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Depends on what you want to
do, just.
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mary rosenblum
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Journalism is not the same as
magazine nonfiction.
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The style is different, the
'rules' are different.
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mary rosenblum
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Best way to learn that is to
get a job on a newspaper.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me Mary Rosenblum LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today we’re
talking about the interview. If you’re new here, remember that you need to
click on the Ask a Question button or the word bubble next to the red question
mark at the top of the screen, or use the ask a question icon in order to
ask a question. Your regular send bar won’t reach me! You can also type
/ask in front of your question to reach me.
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mary rosenblum
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Sigh, we've got a Pacific
storm coming in. If I vanish, my cable went down.
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janecj333
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Mary, give us the scoop on how
you initially approach a potential interviewee
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mary rosenblum
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Well, it's pretty much the
same way, only easier now, since I have quite a few books published I can
show, to prove I'm really doing waht I say I'm doing. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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But even when I didn't, you
call up the person, explain you're a writer...
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explain why you'd like to
interview them.
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mary rosenblum
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If you can, ask the person if
you could interview them in the future and then go send out queries...
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mary rosenblum
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so you know where you'll send
it.
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mary rosenblum
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But if you don't have clips
yet, you're just hoping to sell this...
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mary rosenblum
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just tell the person you'd
like to interview for a particular magazine...
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mary rosenblum
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I have never had someone ask
me if I was sure it would be published. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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The general public doesn't
usually understand how publishing works. They just assume it will be. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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If you don't sell it, and they
want to know when it will be out, you just say, you're really sorry, but
they didn't go for it, or it got bumped... (white lie but you don't want
the person...
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to feel he/she is being
personally rejected).
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mary rosenblum
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Always make sure it is at
THEIR convenience.
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mary rosenblum
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And state the time you need...
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mary rosenblum
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I usually ask if I can buy the
person lunch and do the interview then.
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mary rosenblum
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Or I'll ask if I can have a
half hour.
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mary rosenblum
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And then I have my questions
ready to it only takes that half hour...
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mary rosenblum
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and often I spend much longer
because the person is enjoying it and has the time to spend.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me Mary Rosenblum LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today we’re
talking about the interview. If you’re new here, remember that you need to
click on the Ask a Question button or the word bubble next to the red
question mark at the top of the screen, or use the ask a question icon in
order to ask a question. Your regular send bar won’t reach me! You can also
type /ask in front of your question to reach me.
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sallyk
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What personal skills should one
cultivate to be a better interviewer?
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mary rosenblum
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Be engaging. ACT relaxed. (You
won't be at first. I am now. :-))
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Be interested in what they do.
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And most importantly, LISTEN
to their answers.
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mary rosenblum
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Use that bit of revealed
interest to ask more questions along this line if it's a profitable
direction for your research.
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andi
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do they mind if you use a
recorder or just write as they talk
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justme
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Do you find subjects
uncomfortable with a tape recorder
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mary rosenblum
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I always ask if I can use one.
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mary rosenblum
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Rarely do they say no. I do
have to say, that I have not used a tape when...
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mary rosenblum
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interviewing law enforcement
people unless I know them personally.
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mary rosenblum
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They are much more careful
about what they say if it's on tape, I"ve found. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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I just use a pad and pen for
that.
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mary rosenblum
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And if someone relaxes,
decides he trusts me, I learn a lot that I don't think he'd say on tape.
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andi
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i wouldn't remember much if I
didn't have it recorded
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mary rosenblum
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The flip side of this is learn
to take COHERENT notes.
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mary rosenblum
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I learned that the hard way.
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mary rosenblum
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You look at those scribbles
two weeks later and think...waht does THAT mean?
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Now I write fast, kind of my
own shorthand, but in detail.
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tory
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And the "what does that
mean" seems to always be a critical bit!
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Oh, of course!
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And something you dare not
guess about either, sigh.
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justme
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Not exactly like writing without
a light in the dark during
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justme
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a murder or something
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Almost that bad at times,
just!
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mary rosenblum
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If you've established a rappor
with the person, if she is opening up, talking to you like you're a friend,
not thinking about the fact htat you're recording this...
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you really don't want to
remind that person! :-) So it is a bit like writing in the dark...
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mary rosenblum
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since you're smiling, keeping
eye contact, reacting to what they are saying as you also try to record it.
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mary rosenblum
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Talk about rubbing your head
and patting your stomach at the same time! Whew.
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mary rosenblum
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Another trick I learned the
very hard way...
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in this case, go home and
RIGHT NOW transcribe those notes.
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mary rosenblum
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You won't lose as much.
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mary rosenblum
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Or...something else I do...get
in your car when you leave and start recording your memories and
impressions on tape...
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to back up your written notes
later.
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mary rosenblum
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That's where I record visual
details.
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mary rosenblum
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I don't waste time on them
while I'm interviewing, but if I need the details of the surroundings, I do
them afterward.
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janecj333
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off topic...:)...Mary, the
Pacific storm has brought us snow, just now! Are you getting any yet?
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mary rosenblum
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Ah, up in the hills about 2000
feet, jane. I"m at 1000so it's hard rain right now.
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mary rosenblum
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Brace yourself if this is
heading your way!
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me Mary Rosenblum LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today we’re
talking about the interview. If you’re new here, remember that you need to
click on the Ask a Question button or the word bubble next to the red
question mark at the top of the screen, or use the ask a question icon in
order to ask a question. Your regular send bar won’t reach me! You can also
type /ask in front of your question to reach me.
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mary rosenblum
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One reason I do interviews for
fiction research and highly recommend it...
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is that you will get an
insider's view of whatever you are researching.
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mary rosenblum
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Every person in every career
has their own insider idioms, they own way of looking at what they do...
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and you can create enormous
verisimilitude with a very few of these 'inside' details.
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mary rosenblum
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It is worth the time and the
cost of the lunch to get 'em.
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janecj333
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we're basically at sea level
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Ah, but you're in the cold
eastern side of the state, Jane.
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mary rosenblum
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I'm over here in the coastal
rainforest. (Well, actually the Columbia Gorge, but it's still warmer).
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t green
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Mary, I don't know if you've
covered this... how do you do a phone interview?
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mary rosenblum
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That's sort of the same as
doing a face to face, t.
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mary rosenblum
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You have the ability to change
the questions and pursue a new slant if things get interesting.
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mary rosenblum
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I much prefer it to an email
or mail interview, although I'm much better at asking provocative questions
now. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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It will cost you if it's long
distance...especially if your subject likes to talk. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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Set up the time at their
convenience of course.
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mary rosenblum
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Remember...the interviewee is
always doing you an enormous favor. You're going to get paid, he/she is
not.
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mary rosenblum
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Be polite, be charming if you
possibly can, be impressed with what they do, be genuinely curious about
their cool line of work... be interested.
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t green
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I did one phone interview. Lucky
me... when i called the first time, he was busy... and then called me
back... his dime
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mary rosenblum
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Wow, that was nice of him. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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I don't do that. I know who's
getting the check. LOL
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andi
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get to know them first kind of
thing
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mary rosenblum
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Yep.
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Thjats
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mary rosenblum
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That's hard when you first
start interviewing.
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You're nervous, stiff, you
feel like this person will see right through you...
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know you're an unpublished
author and throw you out!
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But the more you can make this
person the center of your attention the better.
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t green
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Scientist... calling from
work... he was an expert with interviews... and i was just a fumbling
beginner. he was very patient with me.
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mary rosenblum
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Oh, nice guy.
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mary rosenblum
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I've had a couple of those.
:-) One for a radio show...I ended up kind of nudging him to ask questions
because..
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he hadn't done this a lot and
was having troubles.
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mary rosenblum
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I had a recent email
interview...not yours Gwanny...where I added comments of my own. Same
reason. They had left out some questions that should have been in there.
:-)
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t green
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But... the interview made my
article stronger. It was for an assignment at ICL.... actually. I did sell
the article just recently :-D
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mary rosenblum
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Cool, t. Yes, interviews do
sell. You just have to find the magazine where they fit.
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mary rosenblum
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Genearlly, I go into an
interview with a limited number of things I really want and need to know.
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mary rosenblum
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And then let the interview
sort of find its own way around that.
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speckledorf
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I do a lot of email interviews
and always leave time for follow up questions. Just in case I need more
info or they mention something cool I want to know more about.
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mary rosenblum
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That's right, speck...all
yours are email, aren't they.
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mary rosenblum
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You can get really good at
asking questions that invite your guest to go off on interesting tangents.
:-)
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mary rosenblum
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Leading the witness....
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mary rosenblum
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Actually, if you want a good
example of strong interview skills, listen to the NPR interviewer Terry
Gross.
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mary rosenblum
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She doe Fresh Air, you'll find
it on your local station...
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and I learned a lot of
interview technique from listening to her.
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These are edited of course,
they're not live, but even so, you can see how she follows up on unexpected
topics...
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mary rosenblum
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and how she uses questions to
take the interview in the direction she wants it to go.
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mary rosenblum
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I do a little exercise
whenever it's on and see how long it takes me to figure out her slant. :-)
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janecj333
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Mary, tell us how you use
interviews in your fiction
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mary rosenblum
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I use interviews a lot in
fiction to give the piece reality.
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mary rosenblum
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There are small
details...slang words, a certain perspective, behavior, visual details...
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that are only known by the
people in a particular career..a cop, a laboratoy tech in a biomedical
facility, a landscaper...what have you.
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If you don't know those
insider details, your version of what that microbiologist or landscaper does...
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is pretty much what the
average reader's version is...the surface stereotype.
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If you can add those reality
bits as I call them, the insider stuff, this seems REAL to your readers.
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It isn't the same superficial
vision they have.
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And of course, if someone IN
the field reads it, they appreciate the reality.
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I have often found that the
insider details were strong enough to actually change my plot and send the
story in a new and stronger direction.
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Worth the time and effort in
my opionion.
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info
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in a sense, isn't an interview
sort of like being here at forums? I mean we all ask questions because we
are truly interested in the answers, and sometimes those answers lead us to
more questions.
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mary rosenblum
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Exactly.
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mary rosenblum
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And for fiction interviews, I
am intensely interested in that 'insider' mind set.
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mary rosenblum
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That is mostly what I am
after.
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janecj333
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how kosher is it to use an
interviewee's sentence word for word, something of really piercing truth,
as a character's dialogue?
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mary rosenblum
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Nothing wrong with that as
long as it's not something that will get the person in trouble...
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with his co workers (since he
will have told 'em about the book and they'll all be waiting to see what
you did with the details!).
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mary rosenblum
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I know I"ve used
someone's exact words before at least a couple of times.
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mary rosenblum
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I doubt that person even
remembers saying that particular sentence. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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In the context of the story it
doesn't stand out as someone else's quote. Or it wouldn't be there!
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tory
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do you thank all your
interviewees in the acknowledgment or notes of your books?
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mary rosenblum
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Absolutely! At least for the
novels.
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mary rosenblum
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You can't do that in short
fiction, alas.
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mary rosenblum
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But I do send 'em copies of
the story.
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mary rosenblum
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I got a lot of research help
for the novel coming out next year from Bradley Edwards about the space
elevator design...
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mary rosenblum
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and from Greg Bear who passed
on a LOT of human evolution research to me.
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mary rosenblum
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They get BIG thanks from me.
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mary rosenblum
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Well, this has been a fun
Oregon hour...glad I"m inside today!
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mary rosenblum
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Do interviews. It takes a
while to get comfortable with the form, but then it yields a LOT...
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whether you're doing fiction
or nonfiction.
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mary rosenblum
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See you all tomorrow morning !
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mary rosenblum
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Stay dry!
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mary rosenblum
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Or warm for those of you with
the frozen version of rain, out there!
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geezer
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Please don't send the rain down
here! We're having a parade!
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mary rosenblum
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Geeze it seems perfectly happy
to batter us here in the upper left hand corner.
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mary rosenblum
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I'll post the transcript in
the usual place...
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Writing Craft ...forum
Transcripts.
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mary rosenblum
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See you all tomorrow!
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