Improving Your Interviewing Skills
One of your most important assets as a writer is your ability to talk to people and to get the kinds of quotes that enliven your stories and give them credibility. In this interactive seminar, you will sharpen those skills by listening to discussants tell what has helped them before, during and after the interview.
You will review:
- how to prepare for and set up an interview
- when, whether and how to use the tape recorder
- where and when to conduct the interview
- how to maintain control and go with the flow
- how to get an inner view
- the importance of gathering anecdotes
- when and whether to correct, change or make up quotes
- when and how often to attribute quotes
- steps in writing the interview story