I used to find unsociable hours worked best for me at Uni, between 1-5am was when I'd get my most creative work done. Now that employers insist on unfair working hours I tend to get the bulk of my writing done early eve and anytime at weekends.
I work best whenever I am undisturbed. This means no music, no radio, no distractions at all. Around here I get that in the middle of the night when my insomnia has me in its grip or in the middle of weekdays when everyone is is at school or work.
I actually find I work better when I have music playing in the background for some reason, particularly romanian dance music. dunno why, could also be because I write action stories and like getting pumped up
I'm a night-writer too, and write best between 9 or 10pm until 2am, but I often start earlier, around 7 or 8. I usually go to bed around 4 in the morning and sleep until 1 or 2pm And I love it!!! I wish i could do this always! (but when my job starts again in three weeks I won't be able to do that anymore, I'm afraid. )
I work best at nights, it's then I can access my deepest and darkest thoughts. I also have a very bad sleeping pattern. I barley sleep.
Evening is my most common time to write, but I do prefer to write in the morning. The natural sunlight eases my weak eyes and makes it easier to continue to write for extended periods of time.
My favorite time to write is early in the morning. I used to get up at 4 am and go to the office (I lived a long way from work then, and going in early allowed me to miss the traffic). That meant I'd have about three or even four hours at the office before anybody else would show up. That was PRIME WRITING TIME, BABY!! Nobody around, nice and quiet, a fresh pot of coffee ... I've never been more productive. Now I'm not in that job and I'm not in that environment. I work at home, and I've gotten out of the habit of getting up early. I'm nowhere near as productive, writing-wise, as I was back then.
Wow, seems a lot of writers favour the wee small hours - as do I. I'm not sure what came first, the writing or the insomnia, but I can't sleep until I am so physically exhausted that there's not even a remote possibility of me being able to write another sentence. This usually occurs about 3 or 4am, which is bad because I'm up at 5.15am these days for work! But I can't write when anyone else is around, so I have to wait for other people to go to bed, which is at least 11pm, if not midnight. That eats into my writing time :-( Then again, when I've tried to write in sociable hours I find it a bit forced - I think my brain needs a whole day to warm up before it gets productive ;-)
Actually, I drink a lot of rum and the next chapter just forms in my head, even the dialogue. I write it down sober the next morning.
TOO true. Facebook. YouTube. GameFAQS. ISOhunt... they really get dig into my writing time :-S Lucky you! Normally the ideas formed by good ol' Captain Morgan need to be written down asap as they don't survive until the morning
Early morn or late at night. I notice that if I force myself to write, then do whatever else, I get to it when I'm ready.
I write at any time of day, when I feel like it but I always find that I write much better at night and I'll wake up in the morning and wonder how I did it I tend to regret what I write ALOT but often, I find that I don't usually regret what I write if I've written it at night. I'm not sure why this is - maybe it's because at night, anything seems possible which I think makes my stories a lot more realistic.
I used to write it down but couldn't read my writing the next morning. That's when I realized that I remembered every word.
Rum fuelled writing? Hmm. You must be a different kind of drunk to me coz the stuff I write when I'm squiffy is complete crap, lol
Well said XD I'd have to say evenings and any time after midnight...so 7-11pm and 2-5am. Not sure why, but there it is.
I am not a morning person, so my best writing tends to be when I'm at my best, which is at late afternoon and night. I like to write at night, there is just something so relaxing about the quiet and darkness which really helps.
Yeah being a drunk is always very cool. I write in the afternoon the most. At night I'm too tired. I don't know how working people can write at night. I can write in the morning, even though I'm not usually a morning person. But there are no hard and fast rules for me as I tend to break them when I make them.
