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Ben Fountain
“He had tried to write when he came home at night from work, but usually he was too tired to do much. He decided to quit his job. He began his new life on a February morning—a Monday. He sat down at his kitchen table at 7:30 A.M. He made a plan. Every day, he would write until lunchtime. Then he would lie down on the floor for twenty minutes to rest his mind. Then he would return to work for a few more hours. He was a lawyer. He had discipline….Ben could start writing at seven-thirty in the morning because Sharie [his wife] took their son to day care. He stopped working in the afternoon because that was when he had to pick him up, and then he did the shopping and the household chores. In 1989, they had a second child, a daughter. Fountain was a full-fledged North Dallas stay-at-home dad….Sharie was Ben’s wife. But she was also—to borrow a term from long ago—his patron.” -Malcolm Gladwell
(Source: gladwell.com)
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