When you get to the end of some of these other books, it feels like you're identified as an expert in these areas. But it also means that you're always thinking about the marketplace. You're always worried about whether things are going to sell. And that can erode some of the just pure joy that was the reason you got into doing this in the first place. So I felt like it helped me rethink and recapture some of that beauty of just being like, "The result of this really doesn't matter"
Peggy Orenstein is a journalist and author. Her latest book is Unraveling.
“The challenge is… to not want to say, I need to know what the book is about. I need to have my chapters. I need to know what exactly I'm looking for. Because it's really scary to just go out and report and have trust that there's going to be interesting things and that if you just keep going, you're going to find them. So to not foreclose possibility and options and ideas is the biggest reporting challenge for those sorts of books for me.”
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