While many public performances of culture were shut down during much of the pandemic, the homes of many artists became prominent places for making culture. In particular, the pandemic created a rift in the temporal and spatial organization of work and leisure, affecting time management. This article turns to the creative lives of 32 novelists in Sweden who were interviewed online over video in 2020 and 2021. Using the example of these authors, the article investigates the impact of the pandemic on actors in culture who, to a large degree, already work creatively in physical isolation. The pandemic became an external shock affecting the temporal organization among authors and their ability to juggle commitments in life. For some, the pandemic situation appeared to create a rare slowdown of their relationships to their creative lives as well as a synchronization of spheres of life, feelings of resonance, and time for writing. As their regular activities disappeared and commitments weakened, others felt a non-resonant slowdown in their creative capacities. Those whose lives were intensified by new or additional work to make ends meet lost time for creative work, with writing becoming a guilty pleasure in response to the pandemic as a trauma. The research results emphasize the temporal conditions for making culture at home during the pandemic and argue for the general importance of studying temporal organizations of careers and art-making.

尽管在大流行的大部分时间里，许多公开的文化表演都被关闭了，但许多艺术家的家却成为了制作文化的重要场所。特别是，大流行在工作和休闲的时空组织中造成了裂痕，影响了时间管理。本文转向瑞典 32 位小说家的创作生活，他们在 2020 年和 2021 年接受了在线视频采访。文章以这些作者为例，调查了大流行对文化参与者的影响，他们在很大程度上已经在物理隔离中创造性地工作。这场流行病成为一种外部冲击，影响了作者之间的时间组织以及他们在生活中兼顾承诺的能力。对于一些，大流行的情况似乎使他们与创造性生活的关系以及生活领域、共鸣感和写作时间的同步出现了罕见的放缓。随着他们的常规活动消失并且承诺减弱，其他人感到他们的创造能力没有引起共鸣。那些因新的或额外的工作以维持生计而生活紧张的人失去了创作工作的时间，写作成为一种内疚的乐趣，以应对大流行作为一种创伤。研究结果强调了在大流行期间在家中制作文化的时间条件，并论证了研究职业和艺术创作的时间组织的普遍重要性。随着他们的常规活动消失并且承诺减弱，其他人感到他们的创造能力没有引起共鸣。那些因新的或额外的工作以维持生计而生活紧张的人失去了创作工作的时间，写作成为一种内疚的乐趣，以应对大流行作为一种创伤。研究结果强调了在大流行期间在家中制作文化的时间条件，并论证了研究职业和艺术创作的时间组织的普遍重要性。随着他们的常规活动消失并且承诺减弱，其他人感到他们的创造能力没有引起共鸣。那些因新的或额外的工作以维持生计而生活紧张的人失去了创作工作的时间，写作成为一种内疚的乐趣，以应对大流行作为一种创伤。研究结果强调了在大流行期间在家中制作文化的时间条件，并论证了研究职业和艺术创作的时间组织的普遍重要性。