I learned a little about human intelligence collection from the army while on my second tour in Iraq. I always snickered at the idea of collecting the intelligence of humans; "I got Einstein!!!" "I'll trade you my 1939 Einstein for your post hemlock Socrates?" "Careful, that Van Gogh thought is fragile. It's pre-self-mutilation." But I digress...
Interrogation by any other name...
It was all about the approach. The approach set the scene for the questions. Improperly set, the scene would fail the questioner and their way would be difficult.
It's all about the approach.
I'm going to scrap my initial approach for the story and rewrite what I have so far from a different perspective. Instead of first person, past tense, I'm gonna try third person, limited, past tense. I'm going to approach the story as a collector of information, of the intelligence I've created for the protagonist, and let those that were there to witness the events, to bias the story through their intelligence, help me tell the story. Hopefully it will add some color.
'Course, now I have to rewrite everything I've already written. Both pages. Le sigh.
Interrogation by any other name...
It was all about the approach. The approach set the scene for the questions. Improperly set, the scene would fail the questioner and their way would be difficult.
It's all about the approach.
I'm going to scrap my initial approach for the story and rewrite what I have so far from a different perspective. Instead of first person, past tense, I'm gonna try third person, limited, past tense. I'm going to approach the story as a collector of information, of the intelligence I've created for the protagonist, and let those that were there to witness the events, to bias the story through their intelligence, help me tell the story. Hopefully it will add some color.
'Course, now I have to rewrite everything I've already written. Both pages. Le sigh.
