Interviewing writer Kirsi Pehkonen

 

Background information for the interview with the writer Kirsi Pehkonen

 

1. How old are you?
2. Where are you from?
3. What’s your education?
4. Who belong to your family?
5. What are your hobbies/ What do you like to do at your free time?
6. Why did you want to be a writer? When did you start writing?
7. Have you got another job than writing?

 

Phases of writing (writing process)

 

Now we ask more about the writing process.

 

8. How do you start ”building” the book?
9. How much can the storyline change during the writing process?
10. How much do you use a computer when wrinting your books?
11. What’s your favourite place and time to write?Do you read the text aloud during the writing process? Why?/Why not?
12. Who is prereading your books?
13. Have they suggested changes to the text?
14. How much on average does it take to write one book?
15. Do you usually believe and trust in the publisher’s opinion?
16. Why does the publisher sometimes want to use different font or line spacing then you?
17. How do you handle the misspellings in our raw text?
18. What kind of participial phrases are not suitable for your style?
19. Is it sometimes difficult to find alternative synonyms?
20. Do you delete unnecessary sentences or words?
21. Is it challenging to do the scene order?
22. On what criteria do you decide the scene order?
23. How do you ponder over the entity and the smaller parts?
24. What is the nicest phase in writing a book?
25. In your opinion when is the book ready to be published?
26. Which do you prefer  -  to write for youngsters or adults?
27. Is it easier to write for young people than for adults?

 

About the future plans

28. Are you planning to continue as a writer? If yes, how long?
29. What kind of books are you going to write in the future?