Going at it, word by word

When reading "How to read like a writer" I found myself drifting off in a kind of daydreaming haze. When I read something that calls upon my reflective abilities I tend to phase out of the actual text and further into my own mind, right until i realize that I have gotten nowhere. My reaction to the text is quite divided. I do understand the point of stopping and analyzing what is going on in the text, while at the same time I hate it. Writing for me has never been drafting and redrafting and final drafting, I just have a really hard time doing that. The thing that happens when I read through something that I have written is that I find it to be completely useless and then I'll rewrite the whole thing. I know that seems like a lot of extra work, but the idea of changing only one paragraph in an already written piece is interrupting my train of thought. I suppose I just have to work on that... The thing is that my reading style is the same. I just have to flow through it, otherwise I'll get stuck and I just don't want to do it.

I do not feel comfortable with the idea of having people analyze my way of writing, since I don't do it myself. Ugh. *trying to step out of comfort zone*

Regarding the research based article, I found it useful but it didn't really excite me (quelle surprise). I had to change my interviewee so I read through the tips in order to see if there was anything new and interesting, but I shall not lie, I found it a little dusty. I will incorporate the technique into my Qs for the interview though.

My interviewee will be Thea Mercouffer, a teacher at Antioch as well as a documentary filmmaker.

1). How did you get started with documentary filmmaking?
- When was it?

2). Did you study anything regarding it?
- If yes, what? If no, why not?

3). Did you read any books about filmmaking?
- What did you read?

4). When did you write your first treatment? How did you do it?

5). What type of language do you think is important when writing a treatment? What is necessary to have and why?

6). When you started to try to find funding for your documentaries, how did you go at it?

7). Did you have to write any documents to try to get grants? What is necessary steps to take when writing those kinds of documents?

8). Where you denied grants or funding because of the way some things were written? Why do you think you were denied funds?

9). How many legal documents do you have to deal with when making a film? What kind of language is used in those documents, and do you think they could be written in a different way?

10). What is your creative process? Do you write a lot?

11). What kind of writing do you enjoy most within your profession? Why?

12.) What do you dislike the most? Why?

13). Are you working on a script right now? What is important to think about when writing one?