/lit/ - Literature

>>19554183
>>19551072

I do have 3 kids...

It's lonely getting a PhD because you begin to see how much chaff exists in the world. Even within your field or the broader field of your discipline. So many idiots, so many times you want to throttle a person.

You see the world as a barren, cold, inhospitable waste and negativity seeps into your bones. I like being able to see the world for what it is, a bunch of tards, cretins, imbeciles watching sportsball and projecting their team dynamics onto the eternal political disputations.

It's all so tiresome.

>>19526789
I stay at home with two kids and seldom work on my former writing career, mostly doing odd jobs for my neighbors, for my kids' non-profit school, and for fun. This keeps me from completing things in a timely manner. My wife also never leaves the house and works from home almost nonstop. So anytime something comes up I drop everything and do it.

A university press is expecting a book proposal from me early next year, I have an article due in January (that just needs corrected footnotes and to trim a few hundred words off), and I need to write a conference paper for February that I've barely begun to research.

Today I picked up blood meridian, while watching the kids at the park, and managed to read fifty pages like it was nothing while running around playing with toddlers.

I also agreed to build a rustic indoor gate with rebar and walnut for a neighbor. They usually pay me between $200-$2000 for each job I complete for them, and I already have a massive quantity of hardwood and tools so it's nearly all profit.

Time limits my writing more than anything.