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Are writers and creatives often night owls?
I was just thinking about this because I definitely am more of a night owl than an early bird and I know many other writers that also like to burn the midnight oil. Some say that's when they do their best work.
What are you and what's your take on that?
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Permalink Reply by Wodke Hawkinson on -
It's not that I want to be a night owl, but sometimes night is the best time to compose a story. It's quiet.
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Permalink Reply by Cheryl on -
If I sit down and try and write during the day, it is a real struggle and often I end up rewriting it all later that night anyway! I definitely do my best work in the wee hours of the morning. I sleep better after a good long writing session too! :-)
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Permalink Reply by Juli on -
Definately do more writing at night. Actually, I'm usually up till 4 or 5 in the morning writing on the weekends. I put my music on and just start typing away.
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Permalink Reply by Peg Robarchek on -
Former early bird now transformed into a night owl...it's now 1:32 a.m. and I'm trolling all my favorite social media sites for ways to connect.
However, when it comes to work, I need to hit my desk first thing and knock it out early. Otherwise, my head fills up with distractions and I never quite get on track. So my resistance to sleep is not helping my productivity.
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Permalink Reply by Joshua Heights on -
I think you are "write" on the money when you say we writers do our thing when the moon is out . I am a Chef that works a 4 to midnight shift and when I get home , settled in, I write, sometimes till the crack of dawn....I think it is the peace the night brings and also the shadows. ..Joshua Heights.... http://joshuaheights.weebly.com/index.html
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Permalink Reply by scribbler on -
I'm looking at the clock now and it's almost half past midnight. I can see 4 online here just now so I guess some of us at least are more night owls than early birds! :)
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Permalink Reply by Sean Noonan on -
Well just to buck the trend I will add my penny's worth.
I am lucky enough to write when I want to, no matter the time of day, most of the time. Partly because I run my own company and that takes a lot of my time so I am limited in how much of the day I can devout to the writing. I am writing now and its lunch time here in Scotland. Once I am in the story to be honest the actual time becomes moot, the writing world just takes all my attention. You should see how high I jump when someone invades my space. Anyway talking of writing it is time to return to the Everlasting and Fantastical Adventures in the Land of Dreams...
Good luck to all!
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Permalink Reply by Franz Hansen on -
Yep. This definitely describes me. I find my creative wheels turn more at night than during the day. Even when I do finally go to bed, my mind is still on the story I'm writing, or an idea that I would like to develop into a story.
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Permalink Reply by Stacy Eaton on -
Well... When I am working nights... driving around on patrol... I write the stories in my mind. I talk out the conversations - work through the plot lines and the twists and turns - but I generally get most of my writing done early morning when I wake up and my house is quiet. If I could sit at work and write - then I would say most of my writing is done at night.
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Permalink Reply by Greg Halpin on -
I wrote most of my novella, Welcome to Scranton, at night between 7 and 10 p.m. I'm generally a night person. But I did a lot of it between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. I found that my concentration in the morning was much stronger. There are fewer distractions, at least for me, in the morning.
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Permalink Reply by Cathryn L. Craig, PhD, MBA on -
That describes my style. Also, while the world sleeps it's a lot quieter. Am trying to reverse and get the gears grinding at 5 am. May have to survive on two naps daily - 3 to 4 hrs each...?
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