Dan Barden has written a hilarious essay that appears in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers. It’s called “Writer As Parent: No More Aching To Be An Artist” and it appears in the “The Literary Life” column.
I laughed, I nodded along, I read quips out loud to my husband. Barden sums up much of the parent-writer perspective with all the appropriate irony and humor. I love it! I’m going to keep it handy for what Elizabeth Lyon calls “blue days.”
It’s so good, I wish I could reprint it here. But instead, I’ll just tease you with my favorite excerpt:
I expect to be paid for my work because, to put it quaintly, baby needs new shoes. I also engage in a lot less of what my wife calls “aching to be an artist.” That kind of self-torture has never been particularly productive for me, and these days it just seems silly.
At last, a cure for creative self-torture. Just add baby and you’re cured!
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