The Art of Interviewing
... anyways, to make a short story long, I told Soth that if he watered himself twice a week, before the worst of the glare brightens in the Abyss...
Oh, umm, wait a sec, umm, uh, hi!
Some of you out there are probably wondering: what is it with the Raistlins and interviewing people?
More of you are probably wondering: why don't they update the site more often?
And to the latter I reply, well, Raistlins have lives too.
The former? Why not? It can certainly be a lot of fun! And the dead are just as good as the living.
Well, thankfully, Steve Miller, Frank Reinart, Granak, and others are very much among the living. But, truth be told, the dead are just so much more accessible! Quite honestly, they haven't got many better things to do than entertain themselves, so why not entertain the living?
Or maybe it's just the fact that, once you're dead, you can't escape a demi-god kender with the ability to transport himself across the multiverse. Plus, the War of Souls has given us plenty more dead people to talk to!
The living, on the other hand, are quite predictable. Ask them about what they really think of you, and you'll get the opposite of the truth every time! (I saw that glare, Frank!) Or maybe that's just because I'm a kender; people don't like kender you know, and I really don't know why. Maybe it's because I've been accused of stealing thirty thousand six hundred and fifty one times. Fifty-two if you count that incident with the leper.
The First Rule around here is... (reads the rules sheet) ... Well, it's "Never feed the Tower Guardian". But the Second Rule is "Entertain the Masses!" And to that end, we've convinced Lady Raist and Raistlicious to give us lap dances!
Just kidding!
But we are all here to entertain, so, to that end, we will hopefully continue to bring interviews, straight from the dead as well as the living. Hell, at this point, we will hopefully just continue to update the site at all!
Of course, as it stands, there are just as many dead characters worth interviewing, thanks to the War of Souls, as there are living authors, designers, and dinos. So I'm happy to say that there's plenty of interviewing to go around.
But, back to the issue at hand. Is interviewing an art form? Well, yes, it can be. But coming from me? Not really, because I'm not very good at it. Yet Lady Raist still threatens me with that wet noodle every month any ways for a new interview, so I try very hard! But sometimes it isn't as easy as it sounds.
Sometimes the questions don't come together to make a really entertaining interview. Sometimes you don't get responses to your feelers to find out who's actually interested. And sometimes, even after you think all the chips have finally fallen into place, somebody doesn't show up to actually get the interview done and over with. Or, in extreme cases, you happen to check your e-mail and you're happy to get the questions you sent out to an extremely busy author two months ago answered!
Then there is the fact that months ago I ask for questions from you, the fans, on the message boards. And I got TWO responses for questions! And one of those was some yuppie wanting draconian porn!
And never again will I promise when an interview will come along, because, inevitably, it won't. So, in the future, you will all just have to be happily surprised every update with whomever I interview. If there is an interview, that is.
In the end, we will just have to persevere. Unless you all tell us to stop. But you won't. So we won't. There. Now that's settled.
Enjoy!
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