Most Creative Time of Day?

Same as yours.

Sadly, my turgid nine to five schedule dooms me to eternal not at my bestness.

Yeah. It's maddening. What's been happening over and over is I go apeshit for an hour or two in the evening, and am full of ideas and pretty much have to be physically dragged from the computer as I say "I just have to get this one more thing down!!" and then I toss and turn as I try to go to sleep and look forward eagerly to waking up early the next morning and sitting down and finally having time to do all of this stuff, and bound down the stairs, and take up my station, and... pfft. Nothin'. I gawp at the notes I took last night and type a few words... and come back to A2K.

Sigh.

I have some more mundane stuff too, that doesn't require creativity, I think I'll delegate according to how boring it is. Boring stuff, morning. Interesting/ creative stuff, night.

Lol - clients: morning, clients:afternoon.
Dramas and crises: morning, dramas and crises: afternoon, paperwork, putting crap on computer - both far more important in officialdoms eyes than clients and crises and dramas: never.

Night: stuffed.

There hasta be more than this......

I just get going around 5 pm, which has been pretty inconvenient re my life over the years, what with 9-5 or longer jobs. Grumble.

4 am to 9 am then I really fade away.

I am at my best when I am furthest from my notebook.

That goes without saying.

<looks at the clock>

I feel like I should be saying something witty, but my brain is rather sodden yet.

I'm getting stuff done, though, going much faster than when I attempted it earlier today.

dlowan, that all sounds very familiar.

Whoo-hoo, I'm smokin'!!! Got more done in the last 45 minutes than in 4 hours of toil earlier today.

Sigh.

Can't the world's schedule be rearranged according to my circadian rhythms?

So, that is about five in the afternoon your time? See, whaddidIsay!

Now? It's 10:29 PM EST. Things started stirring 9-ish, kicked into overdrive around 9:30.

Oops, that was a brain fart....

Still, you would have started perking a bit earlier...

Yeah. Definitely better at 5:00 PM than 9:00 AM, no question.

I'm a morning person, not so much by metabolism but because my early mornings are free from interruption.

Re: Most Creative Time of Day?


Same as yours.

I don't think there's a specific "creative time", just peak energy times and creativity is something that highlights the difference.

One of the advantages of the early hours of the day is that the world hasn't had a chance to intrude yet.

When I had to write for deadlines, I always worked from 8 or 9 a.m. till lunch, then rested, played, recreated

That sounds nice.

I can't do it. Or I can, but I get exasperated because it just goes so $%#! slowly, and I can do the exact same thing in a fraction of the time if I do it later.

I've settled in to doing stuff about 9 to 11 at night before bed, works OK. I flail away a bit whenever, chip away at it so I have less to do at night, but inevitably on a 6-page assignment, for example, I take an hour to do the first page in the morning and then an hour to do the next five pages at night. Pff.

The energy thing makes sense.

It seems famous writers have very different ways of working - I went to a talk about PG Wodehouse and he always had a strict routine for everything, breakfast, work, lunch, walk, cocktail, dinner ...
and yet others find the night much more inspiring, and creative meetings held in the evenings are said to allow people more imaginative rein.
Guess it depends on your bodyclock.

Noddy- You DO have a wonderful way with words. I really agree with you. I love it when I feel completely alone in the world.