EPTI wanted this one to be a sort of "come-back"interview, and I wanted to make it amazing.
Unfortunately, that was not the case. I received generally negative feedback about it, and in this blog I will try to address as well as deal with the problems that arose.
Some people may ask me why the hell I'm doing this, and the answer is simple. I want to improve and make people enjoy the interviews I write.
Ok, let's start with the problems:
1.: Generally depressing tone of the interview/questions. I noticed this after reading it through a few times. This is really bad, because I want people to feel as if they've enjoyed reading the interview, which is kind of hard when it seems kind of dark.
2. Too damn many questions-in-questions. I completely agree, and I don't know why I wrote so many. Perhaps the complicated test questions in school made me think that this was the norm? I'm thoroughly disappointed in myself for this one.
3. Not following up on the answers in the interview. This one is quite hard to fix though, as the interview couldn't be done in real-time due to the time-zone differences.
Right, now that we know this, let's try and find solutions!
1. Don't ask too many questions about bad things, and more about good things. This one is one of those "Easy to say, hard to do" solutions, as you never know which kind of question can seem offensive to one person, but perfectly legit to another. Though if I were to shorten the answer, it would be: Make it FUN! An interview is always more fun to read if the person interviewed is enjoying himself.
2 Make it simple, basically. I will try and limit myself to one question per paragraph, unless another question is absolutely needed, which is rarely the case. These interviews are meant to answer questions, and not create confusion due to the abnormal amount of questions-in-questions, so I will definitely fix this.
3. As I mentioned earlier, this can be hard to fix, as we normally don't do the interviews in real-time. However, I'm thinking about taking precautions and add optional follow-up questions, should it be needed, and if the player's answer warrants one, then he can just answer it. Otherwise, he can leave it out.
Ok, so what did we learn?
* Brighter questions (not as in smart, but as in fun)
* No questions-in-questions
* Prepare better
Any feedback, positive things, negative things, or neutral things, would be appreciated, as long as it's constructive, so that I can improve. Straight-up bashing without any kind of suggestion how to better it is just meaningless.
Thanks for reading!
/Oscar
P.S
And I would just like to say that Jinro was absolutely not the one at fault for any of these problems, it was only my own fault, because of the bad questions I asked. I will try and improve my questions for the next interview.
Also, before you ask: These questions were sent before TLO & Jinro picked up Spot (the kitten), so that's why there's an absence of kitty questions. Believe me, if this interview was done after I found out about it, half of it would just be cat talk, because I LOVE CATS!
D.S
