

In fact, I drew Ducks through two pregnancies, two babies, much of that in this dining room corner. You take what you have written and give it life. Drawing takes infinitely longer than writing it's like writing a second book. I was drawing Ducks the whole time in this house. Because at that point, I load myself up on far too much coffee, and I get to it, in my hedgehog corner desk. I think this is something working parents know: the power of those few hours.

You can't think about that.īefore I had children, a friend told me, "You will be amazed how much work you will get done in a few hours now." And that turned out to be true - that is when I do my work now, within the few blessed hours a day or week that I get to do it. But when you have time to yourself to work, you can't look at that. (Morgan Murray, Drawn & Quarterly) Home or opportunity: that is the choice Kate Beaton says people in Atlantic Canada are. If they are not there, I also have a really good and guilty view of all the chores that are not getting done. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is a book by Kate Beaton. It is definitely hard to work with small children climbing up your legs and taking your pens.

The problem with the dining room desk is that it is hard to get any work done with the busy home that orbits around it at all hours.
