The irony of
making a living as a freelance writer can be that you end up having so little
time for your own creative writing projects…maybe even less time than when you
did something else for a living. That’s why I have an “art first” policy, which
means that I try to get up early on weekdays and spend my first waking hour on a personal writing or art project. The next half-hour is reserved for meditation combined
with exercise, preferably outdoors. This time of making stuff, meditation,
motion, and marveling (have the yellows ever been this brilliant in October?) – provides the fuel for the day.
