Write every day - Day 13

Way back in the early days of my grad school career, before I discovered the joys of eighteenth century American captivity narratives (don't ask or I'll tell you), I was a Hemingway specialist, and one of the projects I worked on was reading some of his letters gathered in the University of Delaware special collections. I loved his letters because Hemingway wrote them in the afternoon, and that meant that he was drinking. I could tell approximately when a letter was written on any given afternoon by how sloppy his handwriting was and whether or not he included doodles. The more doodles there were, the drunker he was. (Spooky sidebar: The most chilling doodle was of a smiley face with arms and hands, one of which was holding a gun pointed at the smiley face's head. Given the way Hemingway died...)

Anyway, Hemingway was very strict in his writing routine. He would get up early and be writing by 6:00am or so. He'd break off at lunchtime, when he'd start drinking, and then answer his correspondence in the afternoon. When he was working on a project, he rarely varied from this routine. He was sort of superstitious that way.

This leads me to ask: When do you write? Do you have a time that is typically most productive for you? Do you have a routine?

For me, my routine varies depending on the time of year. During the school year (Sept. to mid-June), I write in the afternoon/evening during the weekdays. On holidays, weekends, and during the summer, I typically try to get my writing done in the late-morning and/or early afternoon. I'm not super-strict about my schedule when I'm free, but on workdays, I'm pretty big on getting it done before I sit down to read or watch something, for example.


Tally:
Welcome
Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (16/16)
Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (15/16)
Day 3: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (14/16)
Day 4: alexcat, alexseanchai, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/16)
Day 5: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 6: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 7: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 8: alexcat, alexseanchai, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (12/16)
Day 9: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, ysilme (14/17)
Day 10: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (13/17)
Day 11: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)
Day 12>: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (x/17)
Day 13: china_shop

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ysilme here: 1453 words for me today, part for a drawer fic, and part for the weekly joint story project.

sylvanwitch here: 724 words on the H50 AU. I'm enjoying the hell out of it, too!