Chad+and+Vanessa

Chad and Vanessa

=Charles Frank Gerberich=

Interview Questions 1. Where and when were you born? 2. Could you tell me about your family like your parents occupations and number of siblings? 3. Before entering the Marine Corps what was your job or occupation? 4. Do you have any other family members who served in the military? 5. How did you enter the service, were you enlisted, drafted, or commissioned? 6. Who inspired you to join the Marine Corps? 7. Was it hard to leave home to go into the Marine Corps? 8. Did you have ay specialized training? If so how were the first couple days of it? 9. How was adapting to military life like the barracks, food and social life? 10. Where did you serve? 11. How was the trip from home to their? What was on your mind? 12. Did you witness any casualties or destruction? 13. Did you form any friendships in your time of service? 14. How did you keep in touch with your family back home? 15. What war or conflict did you serve in? 16. What were the conditions like there? 17. What were your service dates? 18. What was your highest rank? 19. How long did it take you to receive corporal? 20. What was your job in the service? 21. What was your unit or division? 22. What were your medals or special service awards and how did you earn them? 23. What were some highlights and achievements of your service? 24. Did you serve with anyone famous? If so who and what did he do? 25. Do you have any regrets serving? 26. Was it hard to put your past experiences behind you? 27. Do you keep in touch with any of the friends from the Marine Corps? 28. Any interesting stories you would like to tell?

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 * Prepare Ahead of Time. Never, ever go in "fresh," your research and preparation will be the ground you stand on.
 * Set the Tone. Simply put, funny questions result in funny interviews, inspiring questions result in inspiring interviews. What is the final product you have in mind, and, more importantly, what is the final tone your editor is looking for? Keep this in mind as you prepare your questions.
 * Let Your Curiosity Lead You. Your best bet is to find out what you want to know about this person, their career, or their pet project. Take your questions from there.
 * Yes, You May Google. Hey, we all go to the same place as a starting point, but it's where you end up that is important. Read with a discerning eye and look for primary sources for verification.
 * Avoid Cliches. Ok, to a point, you need to know if the famous banker wanted to be a famous banker when he was growing up. Fine. Just rephrase it in a manner that will elicit more material out of them.
 * Avoid Yes-No Answers. Speaking of more material, another way to get it is to ask open-ended questions that will get your subject talking, reminiscing, and/or expounding on the topic.
 * Go to the Source. If you're interviewing an author, writer, researcher, blogger, artist or other expert who produces a firm product, by all means, go check out that product!
 * Ask the Editor. Another viable option is to ask your editor. Of course, don't expect them to come up with the questions for the work that they just assigned you, but do try to get a feel for what kind of story they're looking for.

A narrative is a moving picture. Like description, narratives need to have a rich texture of details so that the reader is seeing, hearing, smelling, and touching. The reader should experience the story, not simply hear it. Stories add the element of time to description. Often stories start at the beginning and then follow the sequence of events chronologically. However, an effective variation on this pattern is to start in the middle of things and then use flashbacks to fill in the background information. This method is especailly effective in holding the reader's attention. There are two extremes you want to avoid in writing a narrative. First, you can simply tell the story, event by event, without giving it any texture because you leave out descriptive details and dialogue. At the opposite extreme is a narrative that attempts to tell everything, painting detailed descriptions of every scene, quoting everything that is said, even speculating about the thoughts of the characters. A good narrative has texture, but it is suggestive rather than exhaustive. After all, the reader's imagination needs some room to fill in details. Giving too many details not only overwhelms the reader's imagination, it also slows the pace of the narrative. Pacing is an important concept in narrative writing. Basically, pacing means that the writer sometimes slows the pace by putting more detail in, but sometimes she also hurries over details. A good way to know where to put in details and where to leave them out is to think of a narrative as consisting of episodes (smaller scenes that are strung together to make up a longer story). If you divide your story into a few short episodes, then you want suggestive detail within the episodes, but you want to hurry over the transitions between them. Think of episodes as pearls on a string. Make the pearls full orbed; keep the string stringy. The reader dwells in the episodes, but she needs to be oriented to them, and that is the function of the transitions. As with description, point of view is important. What position is the story being told from? Another way of talking about this is to talk about the story's narrator. The narrator is not the writer, but the consciousness through which the story is told. Sometimes the story is told in third person, which means that every one is referred to as he, or she, or they. Sometimes, however, it is told in first person, which means that the narrator refers to himself as "I" and is actually involved in the story. Not all narrators are reliable. The more sophisticated narratives become, the more problematic is the narrator. When the narrator tells the story in first person, but details in the story lead the reader to suspect that the narrator is not reliable, the result is irony. Irony is a narrative condition in which the reader and the writer share a common judgmental attitude toward the narrator, or when the reader knows more than the narrator and characters in the story. For this assignment, it is probably better to tell the story as straight as possible. Irony is hard to pull off successfully. If you want to experiment with narrative form, I would suggest that you start somewhere in the middle of things and then use flashbacks. Also work on putting in suggestive but not overwhelming detail and dialogue. Try dividing your story into short episodes that build on each other. If you can pattern a sequence of events so that the story has some kind of climax (a scene of great tension and even explosion) followed by a denoument (a scene in which everything is worked out), you will have done more than many of us can.