Creating While Caring: Practical Tips to Keep Creating While Caring for a Loved One

Keep creating, even when caregiving takes everything you've got. If you're caring for a loved one while trying to hold onto your writing, art, or other creative work, you already know the struggle: exhaustion, interruptions, guilt, and the creeping fear that your creativity is slipping away. You don't need another time-management lecture or productivity hack that ignores your reality. What you need are strategies that fit your actual life — a life where your schedule isn't your own, where crisis can upend the day in an instant, and where your energy is often depleted before you even begin. Creating While Caring is a practical, encouraging guide for writers, artists, and other creatives who also carry caregiving responsibilities. Drawing on lived experience, Donn King offers: Ways to sustain your creative practice even when time and energy are scarce Ideas for reshaping goals so progress feels possible instead of punishing Encouragement for those seasons when creating feels selfish — or impossible Tools to notice, nurture, and name your creative spark again This is not about squeezing more hours into your day. It's about keeping your art alive without burning out — and discovering joy and meaning in the process. Whether you're a full-time caregiver or juggling caregiving alongside everything else, Creating While Caring will remind you that your creative life matters, too. You can keep showing up for your loved one and for yourself.