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Re:Importance of Side Projects by jackbean on Sunday May 29, 2011 @11:56PM (#2598440)
I don't have kids and it is highly hypocritical of me to say so but "Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace while living with his wife and 13 children."
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Re:Importance of Side Projects by gruseom on Monday May 30, 2011 @03:16AM (#2598749)
Tolstoy was one of the richest men in 19th century Russia. His situation isn't the least bit comparable to a middle class nuclear family of our time, where parents actually do the work of raising children and hold down jobs as well.
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Re:Importance of Side Projects by bmunro on Monday May 30, 2011 @12:49AM (#2598544)
Was War and Peace a side project or the main project?

If it wasn't done as a side project then it isn't really relevant.

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Re:Importance of Side Projects by the_decider on Monday May 30, 2011 @01:09AM (#2598581)
War and Peace was the side project. Tolstoy's main project consisted of managing the land and peasents on his country estate.
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