Self-interviewing for fun and profit and Hammer and Tongs
Not that I'm not interested in the Gary Groth interview at Suicide Girls -- it's about the Peanuts/Charles Schulz collections, not about H*rl*n *ll*s*n, thank Jebus -- but found the linked The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- HHGG Interview with writer Karey KirkPatrick a better read. But that's me.
Each time we tried to clarify the [Infinite Improbability Drive], we'd look through the script and say, "It's in there, isn't it?" By lunch, we moved from coffee to wine and the I.I.D. concept was gaining clarity. By late afternoon when we moved from wine to more wine, we had deduced that we were, in fact, brilliant and that the script was flawless. So we decided to go with the "less is more" theory and left the script alone. And then we had more wine.
Because that's a damn fine writing/brainstorming process.
As the title of this entry possibly fails to make clear, it's not so much an interview, really, as there's no second party there asking questions. Which might be for the best, as someone completely unfamiliar with HitchHiker's Guide would do a horrible job, and someone overly familiar with the minutia of the various versions would do an equally, but vastly different, horrible job.
Unless it was Neil Gaiman,but I'm not sure he does interviews anymore. From that side of the mike, anyway.