Sage Wisdom
I can’t wait until Tuesday! When I first began this Club, one of the things I wanted to do most was interview seasoned wives; those happy in love after 25+ years of marriage. Then life happened… I soon realized conducting interviews and then writing full length articles was far more difficult than I anticipated. So I did four interviews and then stopped.
As I was writing the above sentence, I realized I’d conducted four interviews but had only written three articles. Yikes! I took an hour out of someone’s day to interview them and never even wrote the article for the site. And now that I think about it, I don’t even know where the notes for that interview might be or the name of the person I interviewed.
One of the greatest challenges with interviewing and writing the Sage Wisdom column was the amount of time required to do it: at least 3 straight hours. I’d conduct the interview for approx. 45-60 minutes, write notes, and then I’d have to write the article immediately while the interview was still fresh on my mind. I didn’t want to forget the context of each comment or the overall conversation. But given my work schedule, how in the world would I allocate blocks of time that large? And therein lied the problem.
That was until two weeks ago when I had a nifty new idea. Why don’t I just find a recorder that can tape my interviews over the phone and simply go back and write the articles later. I wouldn’t need to write notes during my call, which would allow me to ask more natural questions, and I wouldn’t need to carve out a four-hour window at one time.
Beginning Monday, I will begin updating the Sage Wisdom column with interviews regularly. There is no better way to learn about how to be happy and successful in marriage than to learn from those who have already succeeded. The first interview I’ll be posting is with Sheila Wray Gregoire, a wife of more than 20 years who likes to say, “We’ve been married for 20 years and happily married for the past 14 years.” I learned so much in my interview with her and I look forward to sharing that with you.
Until Tuesday…make it a great weekend!
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Fawn Weaver
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