When you're interviewing a subject for a profile, you want to sound bright, likable, and clever. You want your questions to sound well-thought out but not rehearsed. You struggle to keep your voice from dipping into a monotone. You struggle to allow the pause after the question. Wait. It will end. Filling the space with rambling incarnations of the same question is never a good idea.
And sometimes you have to fight to connect. It's like trying to make your way through a maze in the dark. Each word brings you closer or further from the substance you're seeking but sometimes twenty minutes in you realize you've walked in a complete circle and gained nothing. You wish you bought that stupid iPhone with that stupid GPS locator. Then finally you take the path that seemed the hardest, the place you didn't want to go, and start to crawl, and you find that connection, the switch was there. It's also a clapper. "You always had the power," you hear Glinda the Good Witch condescend. You glare at her.
About Me
- Hummingirl
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Things you should know. I like to write, box, nap, read and be read to--mostly fiction, the kind of books that play like movies in your head, whether awake or asleep. I need at least a couple spoonfuls of organic crunchy peanut butter each day to function. Every, every day. And to answer your question(s): half-full, dogs, mornings, summers, and more than one. I write for findingDulcinea. (Header photo: pixonomy Flickr photostream/CC)
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