{"id":1762,"date":"2020-09-24T20:55:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2020-09-24T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T19:55:46","slug":"olga-khazan-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/olga-khazan-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Writer Olga Khazan On Her Reporting Process, Following Fascinations, And Doing Less Of What You Dislike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who:<\/strong>\u00a0Olga Khazan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Claim To Fame:\u00a0<\/strong>Olga Khazan is the author of the new book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/fU0N3\">Weird:\u00a0The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World<\/a>. <\/em>She is\u00a0a staff writer for The Atlantic, covering health, gender, and science. Prior to that, she was The Atlantic\u2019s Global editor. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Forbes, and other publications. She is a two-time recipient of the International Reporting Project\u2019s Journalism Fellowship and winner of the 2017 National Headliner Awards for Magazine Online Writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where To Find Olga:<\/strong>\u00a0Her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/olgakhazan.com\/\">Website<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/fU0N3\">Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olgakhazan\/\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise For Olga:<\/strong> <em>[Olga Khazan&#8217;s is] a voice unlike any I can remember encountering on the page. By turns insouciantly candid, calmly authoritative, and poignantly insightful, Khazan&#8217;s persona has a startling freshness that ultimately wins over the reader&#8230; [She extends] deep empathy and genuine curiosity to her subjects.&#8221;<\/em> \u2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/an-insightful-ode-to-oddballs\/2020\/05\/07\/332ae1a0-80b8-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/20-famous-writers-on-when-they-do-their-best-work\/\">When<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/writers-workplaces\/\">where<\/a>\u00a0do you like to write? Are you\u00a0regimented about your writing routine?<\/h3>\n<p>I have an office (which I\u2019m very grateful for and never brag about and only got recently), and I do all my writing in there pretty much. I have a comfy chair my boyfriend bought me and one of those adjustable desks. I work like 14 hours a day, and you don\u2019t want to mess around with bad ergonomics when you work that much.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t really have a routine other than that I like to write for 4-5 hours at a time. If I can\u2019t have 4-5 hours clear to write a story, I\u2019d rather just push it to the next day or the night. I can\u2019t do the tweeting-while-writing-and-talking-to-your-boss thing. Or I have to consciously take a break at a breaking point.<\/p>\n<h3>Do you have any\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/pre-writing-rituals\/\">pre-writing rituals<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/strange-writing-habits\/\">habits<\/a>\u00a0before you sit down to write?<\/h3>\n<p>Not really. I like to have my beverages and snacks close at hand. Sometimes if I\u2019m really stuck I\u2019ll take a walk or do the elliptical. But usually I can just get to it.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>All of your work is incredibly reported and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/i-research-3-new-york-times-bestselling-authors-spare-time\/\">researched<\/a>. What does your researching process look like? Do you have a system or method for organizing material you may want to use in future writing?<\/h3>\n<p>I\u2019m a reporter at heart, and that means my safe space is doing interviews. I interview people who seem like they would know about my topic, then I ask them who else I should interview. All the interviews go in a Google Doc, and at the end I should have like a travelogue of my understanding of the story in the Doc. That\u2019s if everything goes well! Which it doesn\u2019t always.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Deciding on a great idea to write about can be the most challenging aspect for a writer. How do you come to the point of \u2018this is something I want to write about\u2019? Are there habits or daily practices you use to think about book or article ideas?<\/h3>\n<p>A lot of them just come to me based on what I\u2019m reading or seeing. With <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/fU0N3\"><em>WEIRD<\/em><\/a>, I\u2019ve just always been fascinated by oddballs and loners and outsiders. I really get a lot of energy from interviewing people like that because I feel like that a lot of the time. Following your own interests and passions is a good way to dig into something.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/fU0N3\"><em>Weird<\/em><\/a> was your first book. Did you find your routine and process differ at all versus how you approach journalism and magazine writing?<\/h3>\n<p>The main thing is just the time of day that I worked. With the book, I wasn\u2019t tied to a work schedule, so I let my inner night owl fly free. I would usually start up around 2 or 3 p.m. and work till midnight or 1. One day I had a radio interview at 8 a.m. that I forgot about, and \u2026 I definitely woke up 3 seconds before it started. I\u2019m not sure why, I just feel more alert in the evening.<\/p>\n<h3>What\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/seven-books-every-aspiring-writer-must-read\/\">books<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/best-books-writing-process\/\">writers<\/a>\u00a0have most influenced the way you think and the way you write?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/NCAsBHr\"><em>Story Craft<\/em><\/a> by Jack Hart was very helpful. I\u2019ve read a bunch of other writing books, but that was the main one that taught me \u201chow to do it,\u201d so to speak.<\/p>\n<h3>What is your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/expert-advice-to-aspring-writers\/\">advice to aspiring writers<\/a>?<\/h3>\n<p>I always feel like if people follow whatever advice I have and it doesn\u2019t work, they\u2019re gonna blame me later. So your mileage may vary, but I would say try doing more of what you like and less of what you dislike. A lot of young people in journalism are pressured into doing stuff they don\u2019t like because of this old dues-paying model that doesn\u2019t really work anymore. So you have people who want to be a theater critic at the <em>New York Times<\/em> writing about Little-League games in Omaha. I would say just forget that and do your theater criticism already! Or whatever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-ccd1\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--h3 m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--leading\">Ready to create a writing routine of your\u00a0own?<\/h3>\n<p id=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-9a9e\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--p m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf-after--h3\">Sign up now and receive our free guide\u00a0<em>\u201c<a class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--anchor m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1514038873687000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5yl1byOuXmZDdLI8muC9FJDeFvg\"><span class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--strong m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-strong\">12 Essential Writing Routines To Help You To Craft Your Own<\/span><\/a><span class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--strong m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-strong\">.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"m_-8554750413077525544e4c2\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--p m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf-after--p\">Learn from the routines of superstar authors\u00a0<em class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--em m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-em\">Stephen King, Gertrude Stein, John Grisham, Ernest Hemingway, Neil Gaiman, and many more.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"m_-8554750413077525544e2d7\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--h4 m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf-after--p m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--trailing\"><a class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--anchor m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--h4-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1514038873687000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5yl1byOuXmZDdLI8muC9FJDeFvg\"><span class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--strong m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--h4-strong\">Get the free guide\u00a0here!<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"block margin_top_med margin_bottom_med\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who:\u00a0Olga Khazan Claim To Fame:\u00a0Olga Khazan is the author of the new book,\u00a0Weird:\u00a0The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World. She is\u00a0a staff writer for The Atlantic, covering health, gender, and science. Prior to that, she was The Atlantic\u2019s Global editor. 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