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I just finished an e-mail interview that took me five hours to answer. I actually went through the music on my ipod from Breaking Benjamin to Finger Eleven. I didn’t realize that I had five hours of music from “b” to “f”. The interview was long and detailed. Wow. I’d kept putting the interview off until I actually forgot it was still pending, now, five hours later, I realize why I kept “forgetting” it. It wasn’t just a Freudian slip, it was an entire Freudian negligee. But it’s done, and Darla can send it off tomorrow.
I have to say that more and more interviews come in on a regular basis, which is cool, but frankly, I think the e-mail interviews take the most time now. Why? Because it gives me time to reread, rewrite, make certain the answer is what I wanted it to be. Phone interviews may not be perfect, but at least they’re done and out. One of the worst things you can do to a writer is give them more time to write something. It’s like that old joke where a writer apologizes that the letter is so long, but they didn’t have time to write a shorter one. No time to edit.
I’ve actually coined a new saying: Sometimes you nail the interview; sometimes the interview nails you.