Plan a Creative Side Project That Can Exist Alongside a Full-Time Job

You had the idea and you were going to start on Sunday and Sunday went the way Sundays do and it is three months later and you have not started. A creative side project that survives a full-time job needs to be planned for the actual week, not the imaginary week where you have four clear hours on a weekend morning. This finds the minimum viable version of what you want to make, builds it into a specific time slot, sets a six-week milestone, and names one thing to drop to create the space.

I want to start a creative side project alongside my full-time job but every time I have tried, it has not survived contact with the week. Help me plan one that is built for the constraints of employment rather than for a version of my life that does not exist. The project I want to do is [describe it: what you want to make and what a finished or published version would look like]. My working week is [describe it: the type of work you do, approximately how many hours, and when you have genuine down time]. Help me: define what the minimum viable version of this project is, choose a sustainable time slot for it, set a realistic milestone for six weeks out, and name one thing I need to stop doing or reduce to make space for it.