I don't know how to work unless somebody wants me to do the work. So that's why a contract or a dead line, or somebody gives you in advance am that really works for me because now i owe them somth. I won't do that unless body is tapping their wrist, watch he tick, tock. It's due on friday, and you're only allowed 12 hundred words. Those mutual things, a dead line and a word count, are my primo, my it's like my muse and my er, my editor, all at the same time. And as i say, that's not the kind of thing that comes easily. You get to really lie
Chef and writer Gabrielle Hamilton talks dueling artistic passions—and how she has found balance and focus in her creative journey.