Coffee With David

Over the past few weeks I have been reworking my writing schedule to try to bring the most out of me. Will I ever get it right? Maybe . . .someday . . .probably not. It is a balancing act of in the eternal struggle for the balance of power between the artisan and disciplinarian. One of the first casualties in this war for power is the writing schedule and the deadlines that cling to it for life. The disciplinarian in me wants a certain number of stories or pages in a novel done by a certain time. The artisan in me wants to produce quality art, not simple hackneyed pieces that a dodo bird could have created while deciding what to have for breakfast.

Nailing artistic expression to a schedule is just a little easier than trying to hang Jell-O on a nail. To achieve progress, there has to be a constant balance between the artisan, disciplinarian, personal life, and bill paying work life (for those of us who can only write part time). To find this balance, I have found it necessary to not think of my self-imposed deadlines or schedules as chiseled in stone, but to be written in moldable and flexible clay. They are there, they can be adjusted, but they still have to be met. By doing this, both parts of myself are happy and I can be nimble to the changes in the world around me.

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