Working: Routines and Rituals

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, host Isaac Butler helps co-host June Thomas adjust to life as a freelancer. With boundless free time comes the need for new routines to maintain creative muscles and stay on task. Then the hosts examine routines more broadly. Can lighting a candle set the perfect writing mood? Can a fresh drink and an hour of solitary reflection summon your muse? Joan Didion thought so. Do you have any creative routines or rituals? Do you find them hard to develop? Share your thoughts with us at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Working Over Time, Working's bi-weekly advice-focused
0:13.1	side-piece.
0:14.3	I'm your host, June Thomas.
0:16.4	And I'm your other host, Isaac Butler.
0:18.5	How are you, Isaac?
0:20.4	How am I?
0:21.4	I think I'm doing all right.
0:22.4	I've been traveling a lot over the last two weeks.
0:24.6	We took a week of vacation and then we're at my parents' house for a week to work and
0:29.4	get a little childcare help because it's irisespring break and in general, it's been good.
0:36.9	You know, when you're away from home and trying to work, I think you need to lower your standards
0:41.0	about what you're going to get done in a day and by those standards, I feel like I've
0:44.0	done fine.
0:45.0	How about you?
0:46.0	I'm doing all right, but I need to get back to you because so I'm very familiar with
0:49.3	that situation.
0:50.5	You're kind of negotiating with yourself, like, am I okay with this amount?
0:53.9	You know, because what can you do if you're not, but is it okay?
0:57.8	Are you on deadlines?
0:58.9	Are you still have teaching that you have to do, like, is it okay if you reduce your
1:02.9	productivity?
1:04.4	This particular week, it is.
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