The way I look at it...I can be angry about having so many things in my life shorten my writing time, or I can be thankful for the times I can find to write.
My career pays a decent salary and makes it possible for me to write without having to worry about the costs of living. I have an obligation to earn that salary with my best efforts. My children are my foremost joy, and the more time I invest in them, the better humans they may turn out to be. All of the work associated with taking care of the daily needs of the kids are wrapped up in an obligation I willfully took on when I decided to have children. So, why should I get angry when these things take up so much of my time? They are all results of MY choices in life, and my ongoing choice to be aggressively conscientious about them.
And with all of this, I do find enough time to complete my stories and put them out there. I frequently wish I had more time to write, but I own my obligations and joys as higher priorities at this time in my life. The creative freedom I find in writing is a very rich frosting on my life-cake.
Best of all, my ego and my self-worth are NOT hog-tied to my writing success, or lack thereof. Which means I can be proud of my writing accomplishments without taking any emotional hits in the time between them, no matter how long that time may be.
My career pays a decent salary and makes it possible for me to write without having to worry about the costs of living. I have an obligation to earn that salary with my best efforts. My children are my foremost joy, and the more time I invest in them, the better humans they may turn out to be. All of the work associated with taking care of the daily needs of the kids are wrapped up in an obligation I willfully took on when I decided to have children. So, why should I get angry when these things take up so much of my time? They are all results of MY choices in life, and my ongoing choice to be aggressively conscientious about them.
And with all of this, I do find enough time to complete my stories and put them out there. I frequently wish I had more time to write, but I own my obligations and joys as higher priorities at this time in my life. The creative freedom I find in writing is a very rich frosting on my life-cake.
Best of all, my ego and my self-worth are NOT hog-tied to my writing success, or lack thereof. Which means I can be proud of my writing accomplishments without taking any emotional hits in the time between them, no matter how long that time may be.
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