The question
How do you balance creative work with other responsibilities?Originally asked
The Creative Independent, to working artists, its interview series
The Creative Independent repeatedly asks working artists how they divide time between creative practice and administrative, family, or second-job obligations.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
All the damn time, it comes with the territory. My family valiantly put up with most of them. Though the older I get, the bolder I am about saying no.
Jen Dickson-Purdy, Official London Theatre, 10 September 2012 source ↗
There are many times for three months in a row I wrote every day, but there are also many times for three months in a row I didn't write a word. What I found is I make an appointment with myself and I don't look at each day, I look at the calendar ahead.
Generally, my hours are during the first part of the day; hardly ever in the evening. The hours nearer noon, the zenith of the day, are good for working.
This process has also involved slowing down and refusing a certain amount of labor that has been imposed upon me as a Black woman in this country.
It is possible to be a good scientist, a good mother and have a family and even bake a cake.
Upright.
Charmed, twinkly, melancholic.
Not dying before my wife and kids.
Whining.
Quality compost.
Supreme self-confidence and my wife.
Ja’Tovia Gary, Leelee Kimmel, François Ozon, Alan Cumming, Ephraim Asili, Jia Tolentino
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