In “The Soul of a Woman,” you also write: “Men fear feminine power. I want to write, love, play with my dogs and help women and girls through my foundation. Renovate for me means to take risks, to try new things, to be curious and engaged in the world, to build community, make new friends, give back as much as possible, challenge myself with different subjects to write about, fall in love. A lot had happened to women and feminism since I participated in that conference, and a lot had happened to me as well. A few years ago, I gave a speech at a women’s conference in Mexico, and when it went viral, my editor in Spain suggested it could be published as a small booklet. The lockdown gave me the opportunity to reflect upon many aspects of my life. Did the lockdown lead to more introspection - or perhaps spark more reflection - as you wrote “The Soul of a Woman”?
You mentioned in an interview earlier this year that the pandemic had afforded you what writers often need: time, solitude and silence. This is probably my only original “habit.” The rest is what any writer does: research, write compulsively, edit, correct, rewrite, etc. Having a date to start a new book helps me to organize my yearly calendar and informs everybody around me that I am not available. I need to carve out a sacred space for writing. My life is very complicated there are too many demands from the public, editors, journalists, critics and professors. 8 is not so much a tradition as discipline.
Do you have any other enduring traditions or habits as a writer? And these days you write in the attic of your home near San Francisco, every day for hours at a time. 8 - which you have said in the past started as a superstition, but has become more of a tradition. You famously start writing new books on Jan.
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