Comments on: I’m A Morning Writer – Are You?

By: SEO Consultant

SEO Consultant — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:01:20 +0000

Hi, Anne,

Good Morning!!!

Nice blog post – But I am sorry i like late night work then morning,so,I am now not in a morning person group. But in my school & college life – it was required to maintain daily morning class schedule strictly. But now a days for My current SEO profession – i have to wake till night due to regional barrier because i am from India and most of my client from UK,US, Australia – so they wants me always with them. hope one day i will get retired from job and will go out for morning walk with a day dream….

By: Dan Rafter

Dan Rafter — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:52:59 +0000

Hi, Anne:

Great blog, by the way. I, too, am a morning person. I try to get up about two hours before the rest of the family. I usually wake up, unfortunately, with dread that I’ll never get all the work I need to get done finished. By getting a head-start on the day, I ease that dread a bit. Maybe that’s not the healthiest way to approach things, but at least it gets me started early on my assignments.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:10:50 +0000

Great article. Don’t laugh but I go to sleep with a little notebook and pen next to my bed. I have the wildest dreams lately, I wake up in the middle of the night and scribble them down immediately so i won’t forget them. I find that combining you imagination with your dreams provides great writing material.
You’re more than welcome to check my work out, I publish all of it on Triond. There great, pay well and get me great coverage, I really recommend it.
Thanks
Bob

By: Are You An Early Bird Or A Night Owl Freelancer?

Are You An Early Bird Or A Night Owl Freelancer? — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:28:07 +0000

[...] writer, Anne Wayman at The Golden Pencil prefers to work in the mornings, a time she grew to love from morning watch in her sailing [...]

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:15:09 +0000

lol, I’m really enjoying reading the different responses… thanks all!

By: Graham Strong

Graham Strong — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:24:05 +0000

I was never a morning person until about 4 years and seven months after my oldest was born. And only then, it was due to necessity. (Don’t ask how I made it through those first few years…)

Today, I wouldn’t call myself a night owl anymore, but I’m still not a “morning person” — that’s just the most convenient time for me to get into the office. And I no longer have a “most productive time” either. Sometimes it is early morning (after reading this comment, I guess that’s not the case today), afternoon, evening… It’s like a roller coaster. Sometimes I’m flying along the rails, and sometimes I’m parked in the station, and there is no real way to predict which it will be at any given moment.

But I like it that way! I’d find it very hard to work if my “optimum writing time” was still two hours away…

~Graham

By: Bob Younce at the Writing Journey

Bob Younce at the Writing Journey — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:59:58 +0000

I write best in the morning, as well. I haven’t always, though.

When my oldest daughter started Middle School three years ago, we were shocked to figure out that she had to be up at 5:30 every day. For the first six months, my wife and I took turns getting up with Katie.

After a while, though, I found myself just sort of waking up by 5:30. On days that my wife was getting Katie ready, I’d lay there in bed awake.

Finally, it dawned on me: I could be working. I could start my writing 2 hours earlier, and probably be done 2 hours earlier, as well.

I agree about the quietness. After Katie leaves, I’ve got an hour and a half before my other two have to be up. The only sound is the drip of the coffee maker. Its very conducive to writing.

By: Mary Emma Allen

Mary Emma Allen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:13:06 +0000

I write whenever and wherever I find time. I am an early riser, so often write then, if I’m not dashing off to substitute teach or catch a plane. After my daughter was born…that’s when I realized if I wanted to be a published writer, I couldn’t write on my schedule, but whever I could fit it in and meet deadlines. Also, as a newspaper reporter, I had to write when the stories broke and before the newspaper was wrapped up. So I don’t think there is any particular time I write better than another.

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:29:01 +0000

Definitely mornings, most often the morning of my deadline. I think it’s the combination of a fresh mind and the pressure of turning something in!

By: mercurial scribe

mercurial scribe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:04:17 +0000

Morning = coffee and lounging around reading.
Late afternoon to midnight = writing thoughtfully without a care in the world.

Noon = siesta. :-)