Now, I have a 4-month-old baby, and I can feel that it’s becoming more necessary to really carve out space for writing in advance. As a twentysomething, I was aware of having a kind of elasticity and freedom in my day that I wouldn’t have forever. I’ve always just written anytime I had a chance, almost compulsively - on planes, on weekends, late at night when other work was done. “That day freed me from one of the worst traps in both life and writing, where you talk or think about something for so long that you neglect your freedom to just go out and give it a try,” Tolentino said.īelow, read more from Tolentino on how she spent time in solitude while working on “Trick Mirror,” as well as which works form her personal literary canon. At some point her professor reminded her that the only way to find out if the idea would hold up on paper was to “ actually write it.” “I was doing the whole thing like, ‘I don’t know, does this sound like it could be good?’” Tolentino recounted to the PBS NewsHour. Shortly after she finished college and before she began writing the essays that would form the backbone of her collection “Trick Mirror,” Jia Tolentino bounced a writing idea off one of her professors from the University of Virginia.
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