Just some quick, simple thoughts for today. When do you write most often? What is the best time of day for you, or have you even thought about your actual schedule? Do you have a schedule? Or are you a more spur-of-the-moment writer who squeezes a few taps in whenever you get a free minute in between the hurry-scurry of coffee fixes and paying the bills? I guess the flipside extreme are those writers who have a military approach to their schedule and regulate the minutes so finely they could shave with the sharp edges of their calendar. (It made sense in my mind, okay?)
For me, I’m somewhere in the cozy middle. I do know that my writing is steadier if I stick to something of a schedule. If I’m just lolling about the house with no particular thing to do, it’s hard for me to get up the motivation to actually sit down and tap some pages out. So something of a daily routine is good for me. At the same time, I’m hardly so anal as to freak out if I’m not jumping out of bed and on the computer working the latest draft.
The two times of day I find myself able to think coherently enough and focus on writing are: around lunchtime, which is nice because I can take advantage of my hour lunchbreak during the weekdays, and late at night, sometimes after 10 or 11PM once the day has quieted down, all the chores and errands are done, and there are less distractions sitting on my shoulders and whispering in my ears.
What about you? Is your writing calendar based on a lunar/solar system? Do you get up at 3AM to pound out a few pages before breakfast?
I see that smile.