Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician
&gt; In September, 2 months in, I was not only trying to make as many songs as possible, under the nagging time pressure of my sabbatical slipping away like sand; I also started working with other musicians.<p>The author focuses a lot on the prolific creation and &quot;boring&quot; routine, which I completely agree with, and I want to steal some of their routine for my own creative time.<p>However I think they&#x27;re underselling the impact of the time pressure and the collaboration with others that keeps them accountable for actually doing the thing. Also the enormous continuous chunk of free time for this to all happen in.<p>I&#x27;ll be very interested to know the follow up to: &quot;I now know I can make as many albums as I want without even needing to take time off work.&quot;