For a long time, and I tried to get into this one class in Mendocino County, uh that's once a year to share sheep, but it was always the first week of May. And I was usually out reporting or doing something. So suddenly, Uh, I thought, well, I've got time, got a lot of time. Or maybe I should go learn to share sheep now as one does. But I thought they would make fun of me.
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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