Doing random calculations while resting. It takes me 19 days or less to complete a painting and approximately 88 days to complete a novel.
If I live long enough to enjoy 15 more years of retirement, I'd have hundreds of paintings and hundreds of novels and plays to add to my oeuvre, while other writers and painters who cannot afford to retire will still be slaving at full-time jobs and churning either minor works or one major work a year, and in their spare time.
I no longer produce short works. Some months ago Ateneo's University Press asked me to contribute a short piece for their alumni anthology. I had nothing to give them and had no interest in producing one on the spot.
If I live long enough to enjoy 15 more years of retirement, I'd have hundreds of paintings and hundreds of novels and plays to add to my oeuvre, while other writers and painters who cannot afford to retire will still be slaving at full-time jobs and churning either minor works or one major work a year, and in their spare time.
I no longer produce short works. Some months ago Ateneo's University Press asked me to contribute a short piece for their alumni anthology. I had nothing to give them and had no interest in producing one on the spot.
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