I’m a night owl – I’d say “extreme night owl”, but my wife used to go to bed shortly before I woke up – and get some of my best work done late at night. So it constantly surprises me – though it shouldn’t – that some things are easier to do earlier in the day.
Take blogging – or drawing every day, two challenges I’ve taken on for twenty-twenty four. Sometimes I say that “writer’s block is the worst feeling in the world” – Hemingway apparently killed himself over it – but right up there with writer’s block is deciding to call it a night after a long, productive evening of work – and remembering that you didn’t draw or blog at all that day.
Sure, you can whip up a quick sketch, or bang out a few words. But doing so actively discourages you from longer-form thought or more complicated sketches. Drawing breathes more earlier in the day, especially in the midafternoon when your major initial tasks are done and the rest of the day seems wide open. And blogging is writing too, and can benefit as much from concentrated focus as any other writing.
SO! Let’s at least get one of those two things done right now.
Type Enter, hit Publish.
-the Centaur
Pictured: Downtown Greenville as seen from the Camperdown complex.
