It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.
I write my programs primarily for myself.
The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.
I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.
I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.
For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.
I do my schooling through an independent study program where I am able to do all my work at home, and then every two weeks, I meet with my teacher and turn in my work. When I am on set, I work with a studio teacher, and we do a mandatory three hours of school a day.