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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
“The freelance writer”
In medieval days, knights were mercenaries, lending themselves and their lances out to feudal lords who needed help in fighting battles. Alas, not much has changed for today’s freelance writers. Together, we pick up our lances (pens) and head off to battle, not just against agents and publishers but fears of rejection. Who knows what lies before us, or even if we’ll get paid (something knights didn’t have to worry about). Still we persevere. Which proves our suspicions: We’re nuts. More meditations