[New-Poetry] Time to write?

[Richard Wilsnack]

David Graham's "poet in residence" message, and the correspondence 
concerning the Richard Hugo House, raise a chronic question for creative 
writing in general:
How much does it help/impede the writing process to have extended time 
available for writing?  Or, in contrast, how much does it help/impede 
writing to have to
write, as David says, "in the cracks of a 14 hour work day"? I suspect 
that the (un)availability of much "free" time works differently not only 
for different types of writing (say, novels vs. lyric poetry), but also 
for people with different personalities. Many writers, I suspect, hate 
deadlines yet work best when deadlines beset them. Any comments on the 
benefits/woes of having abundant/scarce time for writing?

Richard W. Wilsnack
rwilsnac at medicine.nodak.edu