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During my undergrad, I went to a college close by, so I didn't have to stay at a hostel. There was this one time before a major exam, my young cousin came to stay over for a month. Having a hyperactive, attention demanding 5 year old around the whole day is not the perfect formula for a great setting to study! That's when I started staying up late to study in peace, often till the early hours of the day, and subsequently getting up way after regular people do. I found that I can work best at night, because there are much fewer distractions. I work really well, or even better, early in the morning too...if I get up.
I get my best ideas at night. I want to write, do craft, make cards, draw, cook, bake. But with everybody else's clocks set at a different time zone than mine, and the need to get up on time the next day, keep me from pursuing these ideas. A lot of blogging brainwaves got lost because I decided to pick sleep over blogging at 3 a.m., until I finally found my common sense and started jotting down my thoughts in my cell phone, to explore them further at a more acceptable time. Now I have an ever growing list of prompts. I get the ideas at night, but I realized, I often pen those ideas best at night too.
Now I've found a new solution. I recently downloaded an app for my android phone, which enables me to reduce the screen brightness by a lot (Of course, this still isn't that much better for the eyes). So some nights, I find myself in bed, tap-tapping on the cell, giving birth to my new blog post. These fruits of the night are saved offline, transferred to the laptop the next day, and proof-read before posting. Like this one.
When do you write? Do you have a specific time you're most comfortable with?
Yes
you're right
I write at night
After daylight has gone.
It's then my sight
And thoughts ignite
Hence I keep writing on.
I write at night
After daylight has gone.
It's then my sight
And thoughts ignite
Hence I keep writing on.
I love that penguin appearing on your favicon. :) Good choice! Coming back to your question, I can never write at night. In fact, it is going to be our bedtime soon and my brain is failing gradually/ LOL. I can get up early and write but not during the night time. So if I don't make sense here, pardon me. ;)
ReplyDeleteSometimes, when I leave comments somewhere at night, I have to go back the next day and re-read it as I can't be too sure what my night-brain would find interesting that my day-brain doesn't ;)
DeleteThank you for commenting on my penguin - I made it myself :)
Ahh I too am a night owl. It's just so much quieter for work to be done!
ReplyDeleteExactly! I think if day time supplied me with as much peace and quiet as the night does, I'd have no qualms working during the day too.
DeleteMy gosh. I am in such bad shape at the moment. In the sense, I have been trying to stop this train wreck of a habit of staying awake at night and sleeping in the day time. I've resorted to popping pills, sometimes two of them and I am still wide awake at 5:05am. Nothing works for me. I love it, the time and space where no one else is awake but me. I hear toads croaking and the crickets chirping and I am fast at work, cooking, reading, writing, walking around like a ghost...you name it!
ReplyDeleteI feel you...I've struggled with turning my schedule over the right way too. Somehow, the topsy-turvy day is so much better. Night time is peaceful, and I enjoy being by myself then. I've never resorted to pills though.
DeleteI have no fixed time to write :D I just need the idea to keep coming and it just translates into a story.. My best ideas happen in the bath :D :D
ReplyDeleteThere's something really therapeutic about bathing...most of my ideas originate there too. I just need to note it down immediately after, so I don't forget!
DeleteI'm always too tired to write at night, I find the best time for me is usually late afternoon. I get blog post ideas mainly when I'm out walking. :-)
ReplyDeleteI find night-time the most peaceful, with the least distractions :) If the afternoons and evenings were less distracting, I'd happily write then too!
DeleteLate afternoon to mid-evening I think is my most productive time at work. I noticed I usually receive sparks of ideas and solutions while driving at night. Though I usually don't have a fixed time blogging, I noticed it's hard to combine both (designing and blogging) in a day so I've been blogging mostly on weekends, hence my absence. Much as I love my day job, it bleeds me dry by the end of the day. :)
ReplyDeleteBlogging does take up quite a bit of time and energy. I'm guilty of not blogging more often too!
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