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I usually get 7 – 8 hours of sleep each night. But sometimes, usually near the end of a big writing project, my normal schedule falls away and I find myself filling gaps of time by writing.<\/p>\nI usually get 7 – 8 hours of sleep each night. But sometimes, usually near the end of a big writing project, my normal schedule falls away and I find myself filling gaps of time by writing.<\/p>\n
This means sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and write.<\/p>\n
I went to bed at 9:30 p.m. last night.<\/p>\n
I woke up a little before 1:00 a.m.<\/p>\n
As I started falling back to sleep, my subconscious decided to say:<\/p>\n
You know that problem you’ve had me working out in the background? I’ve got it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And so…I got up and wrote in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n
I Could Have Slept<\/h2>\n
It would have been easy to jot down a note of what I thought about and leave it for the morning.<\/p>\n
But the past several nights my mind has been buzzing, despite getting to bed at a decent time. (It’s 2:44 a.m. as I write this sentence.)<\/p>\n
I can only say that because I got up, so much more came spilling from my mind, resulting in one of those rare writing sessions where not just the last few sticking points of a story seem clear — but the whole world and your place in it seems a bit brighter.<\/p>\n
(I know, I know…that’s a bit much, so let’s chalk it up to not having much sleep.)<\/p>\n
And speaking of sleep…with all that out of my head, it’s time to get 3 1\/2 to 4 hours more before the workday begins…<\/p>\n
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