13.31: Learning to Listen as a Writer
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard
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\n"Write what you know" gets misapplied a lot. In this episode we'll talk about how to know things by listening well. In particular, we're looking at writing interesting characters by listening to real people.
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\nWe also talk about the more formal act of interviewing people\xb9, and how to deal with the attendant complexities.
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\nLiner Notes:\xa0\xa0Mary references her interviewing of rocket scientists and astronauts, which we just talked about last week. When this episode was recorded the JPL trip was still in our future, and was "will have been" extremely cool.
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\nComment Notes: The audio file wasn't correctly linked until Tuesday. The irony of the our "how to listen" episode having exactly zero "listen" buttons is not lost on anyone.
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\nCredits: This episode was recorded by Dan Thompson and engineered by Alex Jackson. Their fine work was obscured from public view by the careless hands of Howard Tayler.
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