The best-selling writer behind four hilarious essay collections and And Just Like That’s infamous kitchen scene waited 14 years to quit her day job.
’s reboot will arrive on HBO in June, where more Che Diaz antics await.
Irby does all her work, whether it’s Zoom-based writer’s rooms, book proposals, or freelance gigs, from her home in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she lives with her wife, two teenage stepchildren, and a very stubborn chihuahua mix. Here’s how she gets it done.If the white noise machine is doing its job, I don’t wake up until 8:30. I don’t usually have the emotional wherewithal to make breakfast, but I have to eat to take my Zoloft, so I have a banana.
, maybe some nuts for protein, a gluten-free rice chip, cottage cheese — I bring it all into my office.Remote writer’s rooms are incredible. I think you still get the same kind of connection, but it’s distilled down into a shorter amount of time, so you really have to get to work. And nobody can see when you’re texting. It’s win win! In terms of my personal writing, if I’m really on fire about something, the best writing time is after everyone is asleep and the house is quiet. Midnight to 3 a.m.
kind of person, and that does not help. I just had another show I have in development rejected, so by now I’ve had a little practice. But I just try to remind myself, in terms of the earth, it’s like you’re a poppy seed inside of a salad bowl. The world is so big, no one is intentionally doing things to you, there are lots of reasons these things don’t work. I can’t give in to doubt, because I would never do anything.
In my mind I just block out the fact that people are going to see what I’m writing. I don’t read reviews, I don’t read anything. I don’t want to directly engage with anyone who hates my work because that would make the doubt even worse. I don’t need it to be worse. I don’t think of it as powering through the doubt, it’s just one foot in front of the other. And never stopping to think,This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
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