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You’ll Never Have Enough Time
How to Find Time to Draw, Write, and Create Every Day
In Make Your Art No Matter What, Beth Pickens writes, “The most frequent issue with time for artists is the belief they don’t have enough time for their art practice or as much time as they would like to devote to it.”
Artists with all sorts of different schedules, habits, commitments, family expectations, all report this, which leads Pickens to believe, “This specific time issue isn’t correlated solely to reality; it’s also linked to perception.”
I’ve experienced this sort of time scarcity, which was one of my first pieces for Forge, and which I also wrote about in Fast Company:
When I was writing my book about creative work, I knew I wanted to interview artist Michael Saviello, also known as Big Mike who worked as a manager at Astor Place Hairstylists for decades.
I learned that one random day, in April 2017, Big Mike was talking to his friend author Rafael Hines, who had just self-published his book Bishop’s War (writing from midnight to 3 a.m., sleeping until 6 a.m., and going to his full-time job) to great success.
That day in April, Big Mike decided he was going to paint. He kept his job, and life didn’t stop happening. For…
