I love the way you interrogate the idea of living a full-time creative life. I've struggled with this a lot as well. I feel like it was actually in working through the Artist's Way that I realized how many ways there are to build a creative life that feel true to me, regardless of if I make money from it or do it "full-time." It feels so worthwhile to really define what a full-time creative life means for you individually - you totally inspired me to make a list of ways my life is indeed full of creativity!
I’m so glad you provide that disclaimer of how “full-time” is so ingrained in our minds as the 40-hour workweek. When we move past that societal construct, we can start to realize that we live full-time and, with that, can be creative full-time (even when endless Zoom meetings make us feel anything but).
I love the way you interrogate the idea of living a full-time creative life. I've struggled with this a lot as well. I feel like it was actually in working through the Artist's Way that I realized how many ways there are to build a creative life that feel true to me, regardless of if I make money from it or do it "full-time." It feels so worthwhile to really define what a full-time creative life means for you individually - you totally inspired me to make a list of ways my life is indeed full of creativity!
I would love to see that list!! Get some inspiration for my own.
"So, how to live a full-time creative life? Create, and live." That pretty much sums it up right there!
Luckily I remember to live in that mindset every single day (LOL JK I’M WORKING ON IT)
I’m so glad you provide that disclaimer of how “full-time” is so ingrained in our minds as the 40-hour workweek. When we move past that societal construct, we can start to realize that we live full-time and, with that, can be creative full-time (even when endless Zoom meetings make us feel anything but).
It is this weirdly nihilistic construct! Like... we've created this container to live in, and sometimes creativity just doesn't jive like that haha
LOVED this read!
Thank you so much!! I'm glad it resonates 🤗
I'm loving how you are incorporating quotes and investigating something so real, and relatable, to all of us!
Thank you for reading!! I’m trying to untangle my own mismatched thoughts about the whole concept.
Great post! I’m going to be thinking about the “inherent worthiness” of writing for a good while now 🤔
See how I feel next week about my writing’s worthiness 😝 haha it comes and goes!