There are ways to make room for art without sacrificing too many of your other commitments or even sacrificing chickens to the elder gods. First I’ll share my way, and then I’ll add some others I’ve tried through the years that are also well worth a shot.

Hand-sewing for reformed misogynists: I think, until recently, I viewed ‘girls stuff’ as lesser, or ‘weaker’, and wrote off an awful lot of novels, for example, and crafts, and experiences, because I didn’t want myself to be weak or in any way ‘diminished’ by my gender.