It's a quiet time on the old internets.
With Mason home for school break, I've been back to my old writing schedule -- writing at night, after everyone is asleep. I don't know about you, but my body has definite times it PREFERS to write. I've always been a lark rather than a night owl, so my brain is much more turned on in the early morning. If my brain and my body had their druthers, I'd write sometime between seven and eleven. But, my real life (tm) schedule has very rarely allowed for that.
I find night time writing the hardest. I'm such an old lady that I'd love to be asleep sometime after nine in the evening, but that's partly because Mason is up at the crack of dawn (even earlier than THIS lark would like.) But I've written entire novels in my least favored time, and they've turned out all right.
The real trick, of course, it to not let my body tell me I CAN'T write because it's "not the right time." Especially with two book deadlines breathing down my neck, I need to write whenever for however long. Every word is a word closer to the finish line.
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I've been a night owl since conception - so my momma tells me. I believe it; I'm just so not wired for day. Am not sure how I ever made it through school...Had my druthers, I'd sleep from 4am or 5am until noon or 1pm. Even though I'm sitting here writing this at 8:30am, my mind won't catch up with the rest of me until about 2pm.
Writing? I write between 2pm and 6pm, although I'd rather write between 11pm and 3am...Unfortunately, the world around me doesn't live at that schedule. :/
Good luck with those deadlines, Tate.
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