Audio Interview Notes:

Interview with Melanie Rodriguez

How Reading and writing have influenced her life.

1.     What is your favorite type of book to read?

2.     Do you have any favorite authors?

3.     Do the books you read have an impact on your life?  In making decision, How you treat others, What you want to do with your life.

4.     Where do you do your reading?  Home, outside, library, school, favorite chair in the home? 

5.     What do you read on? Books, Magazines, Kindle/electronic book reader, computer, phone.

6.     Has your family influenced what you read, name some direction you have received from your family.

7.     How much time and how often do you spend time reading

8.     If you are currently reading something right now, what is it and are you enjoying it?

9.     Where do you get your books?  Library, online, bookstore?

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11.  Do you do any writing

12.  What is more important to your, reading or writing?

13.  What kind of things do you write?

14.  Can you describe an effect writing has had on you?  Improving study habits, understanding yourself more completely, helping you to work through issues?

15.  How much time and how often do you write?

16.  Do you have a favorite place to write?

17.  Does TV influence your reading or/and writing

18.  Do you think your writing will influence what you do as a career and how?

19.  Do you have any habits when you write?  A place to sit, a time of day, a journal you enjoy writing in, a pen that is part of the process?