What can a 50-year-old poem tell us about day-jobs? The poet Weldon Kees wrote, painted and shot experimental films until he disappeared--a possible suicide or expatriate--in 1955. That's his Modern American Poets picture.
Just seven years before he vanished, he wrote a poem about the dangerous side-effects of a day-job and deferring your personal writing: "'I want to get away somewhere and re-read Proust,'" / Said an editor of Fortune to a man on Time. / But the fire roared and died," he wrote. Read the rest here.
Keep that line taped over your laptop, and don't lose the passion that got you started writing in the first place. That bit of wisdom comes from Jeff Gordinier a magazine editor-at-large who gave us more advice about writing a book with a day-job and family. Check it out:
"His advice was obvious, although I hadn’t figured it out yet: write anywhere ... Suddenly I found myself scribbling sections of the book in longhand, on legal pads, during morning and evening rides on the Metro North commuter trains."
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