Interview. Interview. Interview. I've been working on interviews for the third day in a row and there's no end to them - I'm moving like hell with them. And if anything, today is the seventh day of the month.
By the way: I wrote this blog in December month without internet years. Today I finished it, fixed it and show it to you.
Interviewing is less about writing and more about correcting what others have written. And I really need to find someone to take care of the interview stuff for me:
- First you need to find an idea.
- Then you need to find a person. Sometimes these first two moves are interchanged or occur almost simultaneously.
- Then you need to contact the person.
- Wait.
- Send questions or otherwise present them in the most convenient way for a person.
- Wait.
- Get answers. Analyze them.
- Ask for a supplement.
- Wait.
- Get answers. Analyze them.
- Repeat the eighth move or say "thank you".
- Request photos, links, videos and other visual parts.
- Wait.
- Finally, after receiving everything, start organizing: putting the answers in the right order, dividing and cleaning the text, clarifying it and creating a useful interview. It takes me a few hours each.
- Send text to editors.
- Wait.
- Get the corrected text. View what's written, accept or reject corrections.
- Then analyze the text again and check it one last time.
- Upload the text to the publication platform.
- Edit styling by platform.
- Choose the right headline, main photo. Additional links, photos and more.
- Select the start time.
- Prepare a pre-launch promotion. That is, to agree with the interviewer, other distribution channels that are waiting for the interview to appear.
- Wait.
- Run the interview.
- Promote it. Report to your channels.
- Wait.
- Promote it again. Additional, related channels.
- Wait.
- Make yourself a cup of tea or coffee and go find a new idea or person.
And, dear God, it's all too much for me. If I would like to communicate and take interviews - that's great, it's nice, because you don't need to think much (except for all the stages where you need to think).
But for me as a writer-to-be... It just distracts from my real work. Distracts from teaching thoughts. It distracts from what is most important - writing. Writing.
I need someone who enjoys interviewing or wants to learn how to do it. Because I will thank him with endless thanks and euros.
P.S It's already getting better today - I'm no longer in pain when I'm not connected to the internet, I feel freer and more productive today. Focused on what's more important.
During the interview,
Daniel