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“10 Hot tips for conducting a winning interview (a writer's guide)”
1. Determine your bottom-line. Before conducting an interview, get crystal clear about what you want and why. Without this understanding, your interview is like a car rolling along without a driver. It may have momentum, but it doesn't have direction. Once you've identified your bottom line—the information you have to walk away with in order to write your piece—you and your subject are free to meander conversational back roads. Read more
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Meditations
“Fearless deadlines”
Deadlines scare you? If so, it’s likely you’re focusing on all you must do to meet them. Try shifting your sights. Choose a calendar date just beyond your deadline date. For example, if you have a monthly deadline of the 15th, circle the 16th or even the 20th. Think about how great you’ll feel on that day—work turned in, papers filed, invoice in the mail. With no more to write, you can fully enjoy the delicious sense of having written. More meditations