Great!
Don't take the following negatively as some might, and I did when I did these types of Interviews, but these are some pointers more experienced journalists suggested me (and they do make sense) for presenting a better interview (more importantly one that is easier to read, etc.)
1. The bold type face should be for your Q's not his answers. The reason that is so is sometimes in the course of reading 7 interviews from one person, people generally come to understand what some answers to some questions will be. Therefore in order for them to be able to jump around they can glance at the bold face, determine if the question is an answer they are interested in reading from the interviewee and go on. Its just the way most of these are done and how most readers would expect to arrive upon them from my experience (some folk may like to rock the boat and switch it up).
When I did these though I did the same thinking, "the answers should be in bold to give respect to the person talking" but I was told it just confused readers who are used to the other way.
2. Sometimes over the course of a conversation as a person really gets into talking, most of us have an urge to say stuff like, "yea," "no," "sure," "that rocks," etc. None of it is really necessary to add to the interview itself I find, cause I used to do that and it just made it seem more like a courtroom transcript shoving in mundane details rather than something summarizing to highlight important "LASER BLAST".
To me, most any word out of Hama's mouth, or the mouth of a person i admire, even if it is, "get me a coke my feet are killing me," is like "magical scripture" but that is only to you because you are speaking to that person. To a reader who stumbles upon it, or just a random visitor it becomes distracting.
3. I would personally suggest, and it would be good for you cause it would draw in repeat readers, and create suspense, to split the interview into a few parts and post them independent of each other with a span of a few days or even a week between them. Otherwise the thing becomes textbook tedious and turns people off right when Hama was about to name say the next big character who will be made into a figure or something like that.
So maybe stick all the time pertinent stuff in the first part cause it isn't news if you don't post it quick, and other info into the latter parts. Its a balance of what goes when.
I find internet folk have the attention span of little children. Anything too long is not worth reading through (including this dang post
) so you have to cater to them in that regard.
Still its awesome to get Larry.
HECK GET A CAMCORDER, GET THE DUDE ON VIDEO
Do a little show and tell with comics, fc's, etc.
ASK HIM ABOUT WONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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