Who influenced you as a writer?
Um… books.
At what age did you know you wanted to write professionally?
Yes.
If there was a novel about your childhood, who would write it?
Mark Twain
He’s dead.
That’ll take longer, then.
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DAN ALATORRE 
4 replies on “Practice Makes Perfect”
LOL – “yes” is my favorite! Although I might have said “uh, no?” instead.
But I hear you: I’m always impressed by how articulate the authors are who are interviewed on, say NPR. Then I realize that gee, they’ve probably been answering these same questions for a while, practiced this, and -gasp- even planned ahead!
Bonus: I imagined doing an interview like that myself, and the pretend interviewer asked about my POV characters. And I realized at that moment that I had too many POV characters to describe in an interview, and worse, I didn’t know what to say about them. Wake up call! Now I’m down to three POV characters and have a *much* better idea of how to describe their different perspectives and what they bring to the story.
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Great point. Meanwhile, this was about how brain fried I was when I was answering these interview questions. Good thing it was a written interview and I had a chance to go back and add to it!
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Thanks for the laugh. Love your warped humor, matches mine.
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Many TV interviewers send questions, if not topics, ahead of time. So it’s not 100% scripted but not a total surprise.
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