Making Art in Your 30s Is Hard. Nobody Told Me Why.

Making art in your 30s can get harder when work, family and the rest of life start competing with your creative energy. After becoming a father, I started wondering why I was making less music even though it mattered more to me than ever. Maybe the problem wasn't motivation. Maybe my life had changed, while I was still expecting creativity to work the way it used to. This is episode one of Notes on Being an Artist - my ongoing research into what helps independent artists keep creating for the long run. Join the Indiethos research: https://www.nikkiroger.com/indiethos Question for you: What would you have to change in your life not in your art to still be creating ten years from now? Chapters: 00:00 When You Finally Have Time… But No Energy 02:07 Becoming a Father Changed the Rules 03:44 Time Wasn't Actually the Problem 04:39 The EP That Took Me Four Years 06:19 I Was Scheduling Time, Not Energy 08:16 Sometimes You Have to Do Less 09:18 Why Keep Making Music at All? 11:33 I Don't Want My Twenties Back 12:29 Three Questions I Ask Myself Now 14:27 Give Your Creativity Somewhere to Live