Sometimes I wish my mind had an off switch and other times I’m
grateful that it doesn’t. The first case applies when I’m worrying about
something, wake up at three in the morning and lie there fretting and churning over
things that would have looked better in the morning after a good night’s sleep. The usual result of this
is me managing to get to sleep – usually after getting up and having a cup of
tea – at about five in the morning, then waking up a few hours after that
feeling like crap. Then there are those other insomnia moments.
I’ve been getting a little bit stuck with the latest book,
writing, deleting changing sections and trying to make it work properly. I woke
up and started thinking about this and it at once appeared that during my brief
sleep my subconscious has been doing some heavy lifting. I got up (this morning
I woke at about 3.30 and got up half an hour later) and I started writing stuff
down. Things that previously seemed vague to me had begun to come clear. Yes, I
had backed myself into a corner there so change that section and delete that
section, write-in the POV of that character and lose that one. Go through the
entire book, and the book before, and completely change another character.
By this time I’d finished my second cup of tea it was 5.45
AM. What to do next? From previous experience I knew that if I went back to bed
I would wake up feeling like crap, my mind sluggish, and what had seemed clear
to me before would not be so clear then. I took a shower and now, as I write
this it’s 6.20 AM and, once I’ve finished this sentence, to work!
5 comments:
Good morning!
Good morning! wise decision to stay awake, one lives and learns ;)
It's 10am, I've been up a while but my Muse is still snoring in bed, dribble running down its chin...
i hear ya. up at 3 AM checking online, excersise light, read then asleep til 9 AM. i beat the jet lag!
Belated good morning, Chris.
Mine usually is too, Bob.
Didn't want the sleep. Mind turns off again, Vaude.
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