When I'm writing, like with any art form, I make the most progress during those times when I lose all sense of time. Feeling rushed is the enemy of the artist. Writing fiction is an art form. It requires no less freedom than a painter needs to create a painting. Painting or writing, the end goal is to make a connection to mankind through the expression of your art form, something that often requires periods of complete isolation from other people. Ironic. Art cannot have the constraint of time. It doesn't work that way. Perhaps that is why Tim Burton told Charlie Rose his most valuable asset as a creator is unstructured time.
The real world, including the world of publishing, requires good time management, and one of the requirements of good time management is allotting enough time for a task. So how do I reconcile these two seemingly opposing ways of looking at time? The artist who wants to make a living must walk the fine line between the freedom from time they need and the requirement to produce a finished product within a certain amount of time. When I was a child, my mother had a friend who was a painter. Their house was always a mess. She did become a well known painter over time. She bought the time she needed to explore, to putter, to let the muse work, by skipping housework. Not a bad trade in my opinion.
More later.
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