Triggered by this excerpt from Murakami Haruki's morning routine:
When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at 4:00 am and work for five to six hours. In the afternoon, I run for 10km or swim for 1500m (or do both), then I read a bit and listen to some music. I go to bed at 9:00 pm. I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind. But to hold to such repetition for so long — six months to a year — requires a good amount of mental and physical strength. In that sense, writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
What does yours look like?
For me, I've become very much of a morning person after my son's birth.
Initially, out of necessity: I had to commute for more than an hour to get him to daycare, and to avoid additional time due to traffic, I ended up waking up at 5am every day. This lead to an automatic 10pm sleeping time as I was just too tired to stay awake any longer.
Now, the commute is gone, luckily, but my body has kept the routine, more or less. However, even as I wake up early, I can't say I'm always using the time as productively as I would like. SN scrolling, Telegram messages, emails, getting break fast ready... or my son who wakes up too early... I can't seem to get that "most important work" morning chunk in before I get into the office. But when I do, it's bound to be a very productive day.
EDIT: dupe of this thread: #844949. I only noticed it after clicking submit, and I don't feel like deleting this one after spending the time writing it~~