NEXT WORKSHOP

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7PM
HOW TO INTERVIEW SOURCES FOR NON-FICTION WRITING
(and How to Tell When They are Lying)
with Charles R. Cross

  

One of the most important skills for any writer to learn is how to properly interview sources. Often, aspiring writers put excessive amounts of energy into crafting prose, ignoring the quality of the source material used to create their thesis. For a biography, interviews are usually the foundation upon which a book is built, but they are also vital to journalism, memoir, script writing, and historical fiction. For Charles R. Cross’s 2005 book, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, he interviewed 325 people—and a dozen of them were liars who could have scuttled the book, and history, without proper interviewing truth-seeking techniques. In this one-night workshop, Cross will address some of the basics of interviewing techniques, but he also will discuss how to determine the validity of subjects—an increasingly important aspect to writing in an era of fabrication and scandal.

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