Karl Braungart
asked
Joseph Carrabis:
Joseph, you're anything but not boring. Your personal outline paints you as a fully experienced dude. I like your ease of word usage. I try to do that too, but sometimes a polyword will find its way into a paragraph. Why did you select a 30 minute interview / talk with an author? I'm interested. Thanks for grabbing my interests.
Joseph Carrabis
Karl, thanks for your question.
I am, too, boring!
Thanks for liking my ease of word usage. One of my favorite quotes is "Some people have a way with words. Others not have way." I laugh every time I read that.
The 30m interview...Great question...(searching for witty response)...Seriously, I wanted something that would allow for actual dialogue/discussion. Short interviews aren't really interviews so much as sales pitches, a minute or so of "Hey, I just wrote this book and ..." and such don't interest me. More than 30m seemed too long for most people to sit through unless there is something amazing going on (I always shoot for amazing. Tough to do when you're boring to begin with).
My original goal for these interviews was for me to meet talented people I can learn from. The folks who've come forward are amazingly talented and not well known (amazing in itself). One of the requirements for being interviewed is sending me some of a work in progress so I can get an idea of writing style, method, et cetera, and I'm blown away by the quality of the work I'm getting.
I keep asking myself "Why aren't these people on best sellers' lists?" so I've added a second goal, not eclipsing the first and in line with it; get the word out about these people. They're good and they deserve to be known.
So there you go.
And I am, too, boring.
I am, too, boring!
Thanks for liking my ease of word usage. One of my favorite quotes is "Some people have a way with words. Others not have way." I laugh every time I read that.
The 30m interview...Great question...(searching for witty response)...Seriously, I wanted something that would allow for actual dialogue/discussion. Short interviews aren't really interviews so much as sales pitches, a minute or so of "Hey, I just wrote this book and ..." and such don't interest me. More than 30m seemed too long for most people to sit through unless there is something amazing going on (I always shoot for amazing. Tough to do when you're boring to begin with).
My original goal for these interviews was for me to meet talented people I can learn from. The folks who've come forward are amazingly talented and not well known (amazing in itself). One of the requirements for being interviewed is sending me some of a work in progress so I can get an idea of writing style, method, et cetera, and I'm blown away by the quality of the work I'm getting.
I keep asking myself "Why aren't these people on best sellers' lists?" so I've added a second goal, not eclipsing the first and in line with it; get the word out about these people. They're good and they deserve to be known.
So there you go.
And I am, too, boring.
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