Finding the right time to write
You might have noticed a pattern to when I post new articles here. Generally they are mid week, and they are also mostly during the day, UK time.
As it happens, this is no accident, but before I started writing, I had no idea it would work out this way.
I have no shortage of ideas to write about, but I usually find that I come up with an idea in the morning, and mull them over whilst I’m at work. By lunch time, or by mid afternoon if I’m very busy at work, I’ve usually got enough of an idea about where to take things that I’m keen to get writing. Lunch hour at work, or perhaps later in the afternoon once the day is a little less busy is when I usually end up writing. I often don’t know where the writing will take me, and the results often surprise me.
Writing whilst at work isn’t ideal, but it’ll have to do. I have a young family, so writing at the weekend doesn’t seem fair – it cuts into both family time and the time we set aside at the weekends to get various jobs around the house done.
I did wonder if I could write in the evenings, after the kids are in bed and the other jobs of the day are finished with. That’s turned out to be a non-starter – I’m just too tired by that time of the day.
And this, I think is, where Aspergers pokes it’s it’s nose into this article – work days really take it out of me. There’s a lot of brain power expended on the work, and on the various social interactions throughout the day. Add in a 35 minute commute at either end of the day – car driving really drains me – and when I get home I’m pooped. I often feel like I’m shuffling my way through bathing the kids and reading their bedtime stories – it certainly feels hard work some days, despite it not really being so.
Once everyone and everything is seen to, I just want to collapse on the sofa. Firing my brain up to write seems like it would be an immense effort.
So weekdays, slotted in amongst work is where the articles get written, because that’s the only time I can find to write. Somehow, it doesn’t seem to matter that this is an unlikely time and setting in which to write. I usually end up in the zone, and everything and everyone around me gets filtered out, with only the screen, keyboard and my thoughts in sharp focus.
And now, I really should get back to work…
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