Winter has mere weeks before it passes. Huzzah!

During that time, there’s still good inside time to kickstart our writing life into gear. Today’s prompt is about looking at our own personal creative cycle. Do you know when you are most creative? First thing in the morning? At lunch? In the middle of the night? You need to maybe do some morning pages and explore what your most creative time looks like. Personally, I’m best first thing in the morning, especially around the full moon. But, I also can be productive when just left at it, too. When is your time. Should you guard that time? Of course you should guard that time. You should set yourself up so that your most productive creative time is set aside and held sacred. Yes, I said sacred. We all know this to be true. Life does get in the way. I’ve gotten away from that, having gone through some severe family crises lately. Life will do that to you. The important thing is to get back to holding that creative time sacred. For you it could be a writing cafe time — I tend to hold Friday mornings as sacred as anything else and head to The Black Dog. Does life get in the way sometimes? Yes. But, I keep putting it on my calendar and blocking it out. Therefore, more times than not, I’m there, doing my thing — writing, networking, working through being stuck.

This is a great time of year to figure out where the busyness of life, the interruptions, the not as important things have crept into your sacred writing time. Figure it out, and fix it. Before the sun is beckoning us to come out and play.

Don’t forget, Peer Review Workshop on Feb. 21 at 10:30 a.m. Bring your pitch for your novel for roundtable discussion and critique.

And now your moment of Writing Zen:

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” ~William Penn

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