This was SO well said: "to me, aging is this weird mix of urgency — life is short! How much is left?? — mixed with a desire for slowness and savoring." I feel that myself ...
As to the questions, I also prefer to write in the morning and read late at night, now that I don't have a day job. I used to write at night. I also like to take a pause in the day, midafternoon, and meditate and read outside for an hour when the weather is nice.
I made my living as a scientist and wrote on the side, and sometimes I fantasized about full-time writing, but I now see that the path I chose was just right for me. I did get to write as part of my science job, but there were other aspects of it that were so well suited to me, and writing is so uncertain and unpredictable that it did not play well with my anxiety.
I am glad to hear you are giving your brain a rest. It will thank you for it when you get home. France and Spain are good places to feel far away from Maine, I would guess.
Unfortunately, or maybe not, I don’t have a routine for writing. I dabble in writing and it’s mostly in the morning when my mind is fresh. It’s sporadic, not daily. I read mostly in the afternoon and evening unless it’s a really good read that stays with me in my dreams and calls be back as soon as I wake. My goal is to develop more of a writing routine and today, just now, I wrote a paragraph. Thanks for the nudge.
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This was SO well said: "to me, aging is this weird mix of urgency — life is short! How much is left?? — mixed with a desire for slowness and savoring." I feel that myself ...
As to the questions, I also prefer to write in the morning and read late at night, now that I don't have a day job. I used to write at night. I also like to take a pause in the day, midafternoon, and meditate and read outside for an hour when the weather is nice.
I made my living as a scientist and wrote on the side, and sometimes I fantasized about full-time writing, but I now see that the path I chose was just right for me. I did get to write as part of my science job, but there were other aspects of it that were so well suited to me, and writing is so uncertain and unpredictable that it did not play well with my anxiety.
I am glad to hear you are giving your brain a rest. It will thank you for it when you get home. France and Spain are good places to feel far away from Maine, I would guess.
Unfortunately, or maybe not, I don’t have a routine for writing. I dabble in writing and it’s mostly in the morning when my mind is fresh. It’s sporadic, not daily. I read mostly in the afternoon and evening unless it’s a really good read that stays with me in my dreams and calls be back as soon as I wake. My goal is to develop more of a writing routine and today, just now, I wrote a paragraph. Thanks for the nudge.