Early to bed and early to rise makes a man stealthy, Delphi, and... something
Monday, April 14, 2014 at 11:23AM in Process There was a great streak last year where I was up and at my desk by 6 or 6:30am. I wrote for at least an hour every morning, even if the output was not outputting. I sat. I pondered. I wrote.
I also drank a lot of coffee.
Now, most mornings, I can't seem to get out of bed before 8am. It's partially that I stay up too late. Maybe I'm getting complacent now that I'm seeing modest success as a fledgling playwright.
Maybe a lot of things.
Maybe my peak writing hours are not, in fact, right after I jump out of bed, but rather a few hours later—now? Maybe what I should try to do is get to work early, take a long writerly lunch, and stay late to make up the time?
I know that when I'm feeling stuck a change of venue and a limited amount of time in which to write will usually get me unstuck—I'm never more productive than at a small table with a legal pad, a pen, and a large iced coffee (black, like a boss). I wrote most of my weekly challenges that way, and maybe I need to get back to it.
When are your peak writing hours?
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When I'm undisciplined, which is the last several months, I write when I get the "bite" or I don't write at all ! Not a plan I would suggest, but I have learned one thing. Discipline or no discipline, schedule or no schedule––when the words rise up into the forefront of my brain, I have to stop everything and let them pour out. That's not to say that those are necessarily the best of words; but they are authentic and uncontrived. Unfortunately that kind of flow isn't something I can schedule or put on a leash and potty train. Such is the Muse.