Blog 23: 2014 Interview

• Who did you interview and what house are they in?

Sarah Solar, North House

• What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

Goal keeping in soccer games because it is something she is interested in and it's her position on her soccer team.

• What do you plan to do for your summer 19-hour mentorship experience?

Follow around the Cal Poly goal keeping coach or local goal keepers in her city

• What do you hope to see or expect to see in watching the 2013 2-hr presentations?

To see what senior year will culminate.

• What quests do you have that I can answer about senior year or the senior project?

None

Blog 17: Interview 4

1. How can a writing group best be facilitated to help writers develop their craft?How often do you have meetings?
2. Where do you meet?
3. Who can join?
4. Will members communicate only online?
5. Will there be informal or even social meetings for group members?
6. What system will group members use to decide who will submit writing during any given week?
7. Will one person be in charge of overseeing the writing group?
8. What will be this person’s responsibilities?
9. How will he or she keep the group on track and on task?
10. How short or long should writing samples be?
11. What is the most common problem you come across in writing groups?
12. How is it fixed?
13. Are there businesses that run based on writing groups?
14. If a writer is struggling, what can fellow writing members offer to spark inspiration?
15. At what stage in the writing process should drafts be submitted to the group?
16. Instead of submitting a manuscript, would the group also be willing to give feedback on scripts?
17. Since there are differences in types of writing groups, do critique groups offer the same opportunities or contacts another type of writing group would?
18. How many times can a single piece of writing be revised and resubmitted?
19. If someone feels that the group is not meeting his or her needs, how will that person make his or her concerns known?
20. What kind of feedback are members most interested in, and how will members specify these needs at any particular point? Overall meaning? Writer’s purpose in writing? Structure? Copyediting?

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

• How can a writing group best be facilitated to help writers develop their craft?

• In your experience, what are the various ways a group comes together to write? Is it ever done virtually or just in person

• Are there different ways of going about revision?

• Do some pieces not make it simply because they lack skill  or have no shown progress?

• What is done when group members (or staff) fail to come up with things to write?

• How is everyone usually kept up to speed?

• How do deadlines help keep the group on track?

• Is the revision process usually done as a group or is it one-on-one?

• Through how many people does a piece go through before it is approved to be published?

• What feedback from consumers is expected to continue publishing?