Gross starts her interview with Dolly with very somewhat generic questions and then gets deeper and more personal as the interview goes on, like sheβs opening her up. Which I think is also important to note as we start to interview. #EH204
I learned Dolly was one of 12 and even after taking care of her siblings her entire life, she turned 18 moved to Nashville and brought 5 with her, raised them and put them through school. #EH204
I think as start to do our own interviews we consider the questions we ask. I think Dolly is a great person to interview because she is a great talker but Gross still does a great job at asking open ended questions that anyone can build off of. #EH204
Dolly Parton made her appearance on NPR with Terry Gross and I chose to listen to her interview because Dolly is so genuine and entertaining to listen to. Dolly says, βPlease go buy my new album because itβs costing me a lot to look this cheap.β
Carr explained how he may be talking to a source at the beginning and he says, βWhat do you think the story is I should tell?β I found that very interesting as we start working towards interviews and how he does this to strive for congruence. #EH204
Carr explained the types of readers at the New York Times and how they wait like crows on a wire for you to make the slightest error and then descend, caw and cawing every-time you mess up. His word choice here is so rich. #EH204
Carr explained how when interviewing itβs best to ask and stop talking to get the best information to see what they think the story is about, I think this will be very beneficial for us when we start interviewing, instead of us doing all of the talking #EH204
Carr explains how the web is a self cleaning oven and print is always their for the ages to haunt you if you get it wrong. I found that very interesting! #EH204
I think RPC gives us helpful insight on how to really stick our landing when it comes to endings and how we donβt want to leave our readers unsatisfied. #EH204
Iβve never truly given the ending much thought when Iβve started writingβ I obviously always just think of my starting place. However, it would be interesting to start by writing a story with only the ending in mind and see how different the result is. #EH204
βYou will write better endings if you remember that other parts of your story need endings too. Sentences have endings. Paragraphs have endings.β RPCβ I think if I had thought about endings in mind more often while writing I think my stories would have came
RPC also talks about how after watching your favorite movie and paying attention to the details you could talk about how you would describe certain scenes if you had to write them for print and I think that is very beneficial to really understand cinematicart
I was really interested to read #RPC tool 34 because I knew little to nothing about this topic before and it makes you want to rewatch a favorite movie and pay attention to the camera work involved. #EH204