"I don't know if it was idleness so much as just like panic and trying to figure out what I was going to do," she says. "My publisher kind of wanted me to play it down, which I'm not sure that was the right call honestly." She had always wanted to learn to share sheep but couldn't fully say why. 'If that's how they felt, could they just turn the dial a little bit? I don't know'
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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