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Right now I’m working and can hear the TV in the living room.<\/p>\nRight now I’m working and can hear the TV in the living room.<\/p>\n
In an ideal world, my wife and I would have plenty of room to spread out and fall completely into our own little worlds for as long as we needed to create.<\/p>\n
But that’s not happening anytime soon; we share less than 900 square feet in which to write (me) and sew, play Celtic fiddle, and do art (her).<\/p>\n
I could get flustered and be distracted by the sounds in the background. I could not<\/em> write and blame it on the situation. I could plan and wait until the ideal situations for creating happen and we each have dedicated spaces for our creative endeavors.<\/p>\n But to wait for ideal conditions in the future means I don’t move forward right now.<\/p>\n In some ways, I’m luckier than my wife: writing takes up less room than sewing and art. I don’t have to clean the kitchen floor (the only smooth floor in the apartment other than the bathroom), every time I cut large pieces of fabric like she does. I don’t have to go into a closet to drag out supplies when I want to do art — I come back to the office, sit at my desk, and turn on my computer. I no longer work in hot warehouses and have to write while exhausted. I think back to a small pile of screenplays and a novel I wrote while sitting on a hard metal folding chair for years…the standard office chair I now have is a throne compared to those days.<\/p>\n I could still complain that the setup isn’t ideal…because it isn’t. But that would do me no good.<\/p>\n My only choice is to deal with the current situation and keep producing, because that’s what will help us reach a point where things are<\/em> ideal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Right now I’m working and can hear the TV in the living room. In an ideal world, my wife and I would have plenty of room to spread out and fall completely into our own little worlds for as long as we needed to create. But that’s not happening anytime soon; we share less than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Putting It In Perspective<\/strong><\/h2>\n
My Only Option<\/strong><\/h2>\n