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Showing posts with label sleepless nights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleepless nights. Show all posts

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Writer's Brain = Sleepless Nights

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I'm tired. Another night with a two-hour chunk of time removed.  1:30-3:30.  I spiraled out of this dream and straight into my mss and was thinking about issues before I even realized I was awake.  Why am I awake? my brain screamed at me when I figured it out.

Excited? Maybe. There's lot of fun stuff going on with DESTINED right now that I can't wait to share with you.

Nervous? That too. There's so still so much to learn. And I want my writing to be perfect, but there's no such thing as perfect (except for Where She Went, that was pretty darn perfect). And what if I can't figure it out?

I'm entitled to all of those emotions, I think. They're good. Normal. Mean I'm alive.  The question is, how do I bottle them up and get back to sleep?  I got up, read my CP's mss for an hour, and then sang "Winter" by Joshua Radin in my head so there wasn't room for any other thoughts.  It was the lyrics and the music only.

I need a better answer though. Exercise? Meditation? Lunesta?

Does your brain ever get so fired up you just can't sleep?  What do you do?