Interview for Insight
How to Deepen Your Characters and Enrich Your Story Through Character Interviews
Everything you need to get your characters to spill their secrets and reveal their world
With Interview for Insight, your characters will share things you didn’t consciously know about them. The process will crack open your story in magical and unexpected ways—all within 30 minutes or less.
Tell me if this sounds like your novel:
You love to write by the seat of your pants, but now you’ve written yourself into a corner.
Or, you love to outline your story first, but now that you’re drafting, you’ve lost the excitement.
What if there was a way to find your way out of that corner and to rekindle your story love?
With Interview for Insight, you’ll converse with your characters outside of your story. As a result, you will learn more about their motivations, their desires, and their fears—all in 30 minutes or less.
All for $17.
With Interview for Insight, you’ll receive
A quick-start guide
A primer on the basic interview questions
A comparison of interview methods
Suggestions on the “best” time to interview your characters
Tips for when a character won’t speak to you
2 sample character interviews
Bonus: audio files of each piece
You’ve written yourself into a corner.
How do you find a way out?
Talk to one of your characters about it!
It’s like finding a secret doorway into your own creativity.
About Interview for Insight
The idea for Interview Insight came to me when I realized that one thing my book coaching clients (middle grade and young adult novelists) have in common is needing to know their characters better—from the inside.
You may already know a whole lot about your character—like their age, height, ethnicity (or species). Their greatest fear, greatest strength. Their favorite superhero, favorite food, favorite memory.
That’s all good info to know, but it’s not enough to fully inhabit your character—especially your main character. For that, you need to get inside of their head and their heart. Which is where Interviewing for Insight can help.
About me
I’m an Author Accelerator certified book coach and a former journalist who interviewed hundreds of people about their work—from motor grader operators to comic book artists. I know how to get people to talk to me.
What’s included in Interview for Insight?
All of the following are in one pdf file:
A quick-start guide to get you in the interviewer’s chair immediately. Be ready to start your first interview in 5 minutes.
A primer on the basic interview questions. Learn how to use a journalist’s questions to elicit the answers you need to transform your story.
A comparison of interview methods—to help you choose the best for your learning style.
Suggestions on the “best” time to interview your characters—no matter where you are in the drafting or revising stage.
Tips for when a character won’t speak to you—in other words, how to play games with your imagination so you can loosen up and allow your characters to speak their minds—even if you don’t want to hear what they have to say.
2 sample character interviews to show you the kinds of information you can glean from your characters that you didn’t consciously know.
Bonus: Individual audio clips of each piece above—in case listening is more your jam than reading! Approximately 30 minutes of audio in total.
FAQs
How long will it take to interview my characters?
You can learn surprising things from a character in as little as 20 or 30 minutes. The more you practice, the more useful your interviews will be.
Can I get a refund if it doesn’t work for me?
Sorry, no. This is a small digital product that you could consume quickly, so I don’t offer refunds. I think if you give this approach a solid try, you’ll find it useful and worth the price.
Will this work for novelists who write for adults?
You bet!
Who can benefit from this?
Pantsers
Novelists who prefer to write by the seat of their pants.
Interviewing your characters will provide you with a tiny bit of structure—through your questions—to help you learn more about your characters, your plot, your world—whatever it is you want to know more about related to your story.
Plotters
Novelists who prefer to plan out their work before they start writing.
Interviewing your characters will help you tap into your creative brain and give your organizational brain a rest. You’ll feel the magic of a character speaking through you.
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After your purchase
Let me know how it works for you! Email me: bookcoach@micheleregenold.com