I write at night. I mean, not to say that I don’t write at other times of the day sometimes—mornings, the rare weekend afternoon, et cetera—but usually, I write at night.
This is due to three reasons:
1) My overactive black cloud—you know that little black cloud that hovers over you reminding you of homework and chores and homework and training runs and homework and homework to do? Yeah, mine almost never lets me concentrate on anything ‘fun’ (unless it’s accidental procrastination) until I get homework—I mean, everything—done. Therefore, It’s usually late by the time the cloud dissipates.
2) My zone—when I am tired, I can slip into a ‘zone’ where my mind blocks out everything around me (or on the internet) and becomes consumed by my story. This is my prime writing mode, and it happens later at night.
3) Being the only one up—my parents are early to bed, early to rise-ers. I am not. By the time I sit down to write, my parents are asleep, my sister is either asleep or reading quietly, and the house is very still and not distracting.
When’s your best writing time?
I'm the EXACT same way! I hear people say that it's extremely unconventional to write at night *cough* 2 AM *cough* and that I should really consider writing earlier. What they don't realize is that I have NO time to write besides at night. Homework is my main priority, but then there's church, and theatre, and parties, so really night is the only time I can write.
ReplyDeleteBut seriously I think this is the first time I've heard of anyone else who writes late at night besides me! :D
I write at night, too!!
ReplyDeleteSavannah, I think as long as it works for you, then you're doing fine!! I mean, think about like working moms who write. When do you think they write? :P