When my daughters were first born, friends used to ask me how parenthood was going. My standard response was, “Parenthood is easy but not if I have to do anything else at the same time.”
It seems that project is exactly similar: Writing is easy but balancing it against the rest of my life is difficult. It’s not that I’m easily distractable; it’s just that I have a series of commitments (husband, father, handyman) that rank higher in priority and urgency. This is how I want it, of course– I wouldn’t want my career to supersede my family.
The project is likely to be similar in another way too– just as the generosity of my extended family makes the parenthood juggling act possible, so it will probably go with this project.
Today’s case in point: We’re down at my parents’ house for Father’s Day and Rachel and my parents have taken over everything else while I have hacked out my first scenes in four days. Ahh, that feels better.
Comment on this post.
0 Responses to “Father’s Day”