From: shihtzu	Date: May 13th, 2008 10:25 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I look forward to it! I'm pretty excited to see The Fall, if it ever actually comes out here in the Bay Area.

	From: anhedoniac	Date: May 13th, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC)		(Link)

You transcribe the interview before you edit it? I thought journos were just meant to listen to bits of it, and find the bits that would be relevant for an article...

I used to transcribe an entire interview before I started trying to write the article, and then I got laughed out of my editors' office for doing that... but then you are a pro writer and I'm not (any more!)

	From: rollick	Date: May 13th, 2008 11:10 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Well, we do full-text Q&As, not articles. We don't just excerpt a few relevant lines (which would be impossible here anyway, given how the man rambles), we put pretty much everything we said and everything the subject said on the page, edited only for clarity. Which is very different from doing a feature article that uses a few quotes.

Lately when I do write feature articles, I find it hard to break the habit of wanting to transcribe everything, but sometimes you really just don't have the time. At least with this interview, I had a capable intern to do the transcribing.

	From: anhedoniac	Date: May 13th, 2008 11:45 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Ah, using an intern to do the boring drudgery work. That always helps ;)

	From: porphyre	Date: May 14th, 2008 12:45 am (UTC)		(Link)

(I want to see all of it.)



(I really really do.)

	From: grinninfoole	Date: May 14th, 2008 02:15 am (UTC)		(Link)

One of the many reasons that I keep reading your LJ, and have started reading the AVClub, is that you entertain me so, with expressions like "three bastards in a bastard-sack."

If you didn't come across as so likable, I would seethe with jealousy, and plot your gruesome death. (This is also called the Neil Gaiman defense.)