Watch Me Workshop a Title For Noha Beshir's Upcoming Interview
Even after 15 years of writing them, titles can still be tricky
This behind-the-scenes video is a great chance for writers to sit down with me, a longtime editor, as I’m live-workshopping an interview title.
I start by exploring the different qualities of answers in
’s upcoming Cave of the Heart interview (which publishes this Monday, Feb. 26; don’t miss it). And as I scroll through her drafted interview, I explore what I’m looking for when writing a title and how I workshop titles as an editor. (Note: I take different approaches when writing titles for standalone essays versus interviews or pieces that are part of a packaged series.)05:28 Deciding to deviate from my usual format for titles
6:36 Riffing on the use of “God consciousness” in the title
8:31 A first draft is ready to test in the title line
9:00 Struggling with making too big of an implication in the title
10:02 Final tweaks before sending off to
for feedback