The questions all begin to bleed together, and I find myself wanting to talk about quasars or stag beetles or plate tectonics or just about anything at all except my books and writing.
Which is why you give good interview! One of the nice/weird things about social networks is that one typically gets used to seeing the author in some sort of daily context: wordcount, stuff about their pets, television they watch, etc. It's easy to lose track of the important (or at least interesting) stuff among the daily minutia and staying "on message." Back in Ye Olden Days, there was less of this stuff, so even a moderately banal interview was somewhat more interesting, if only because there were less of them. These days, an interview needs to be more than just "a conversation with an author" to be worth the time it takes me to read it--otherwise I wind up hearing the same tired anecdotes or the same PR I've gotten elsewhere--neither of which I've ever gotten from your interviews.
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Date: 2009-07-15 06:20 pm (UTC)Which is why you give good interview! One of the nice/weird things about social networks is that one typically gets used to seeing the author in some sort of daily context: wordcount, stuff about their pets, television they watch, etc. It's easy to lose track of the important (or at least interesting) stuff among the daily minutia and staying "on message." Back in Ye Olden Days, there was less of this stuff, so even a moderately banal interview was somewhat more interesting, if only because there were less of them. These days, an interview needs to be more than just "a conversation with an author" to be worth the time it takes me to read it--otherwise I wind up hearing the same tired anecdotes or the same PR I've gotten elsewhere--neither of which I've ever gotten from your interviews.