On countless evenings, I find I cannot sleep. My brain won’t stop, it races, obsessively testing ideas, possibilities, and contemplating the question ‘what if?’ I have long since learned my lesson, there will be no rest. I relinquish my control, leave my bed, and write. Other nights, I am jolted from my dreams by some cosmic alarm clock. I clutch a brilliant idea like a lightsaber slashing through the dark. Once again, I stumble to my desk, powering on the laptop to transcribe the dream. The stories refuse to be pushed aside.
Telling tales is in my blood, and I schedule writing sessions every day, but I give myself a break from my normal routine on the days when my brain did not register it was quitting time.
Do you write at unusual times?
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Jo Hawk 
I do that too some nights. And if I sleep on an idea thinking I will jot it down in the morning, it’s completely gone.
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Oh, that is so infuriating. It is so much better to get up and write. 🙂👍
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I know, but if I do that I don’t go back to sleep till very very late!
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Who needs a good nights sleep when the words are flowing onto the page? 😄
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Apparently, I do. 😂
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Ah, so do I. 🙂💤
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I think our muses, or whatever it is that drives our imagination, have no idea of time or place come to that. I’m just as likely to need to write something down when shopping, gardening or in the bathroom!
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Inspiration does seem to strike at the most inopportune times. 😮 I have notepads scattered everywhere.
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Yes, I have got up in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep, and crept downstairs to snuggle up on the settee with a note pad.
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It seems creativity has no respect for our need to sleep. But there is something magical about those late night sessions.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you for sharing. 💕❤💕
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