Comments on: Saddle Up http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/ Ten Authors. Five Genres. One Blog. Because the only thing scarier than a loaded gun pointed at your head....is writing about it. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patricia Barraclough http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231094 Patricia Barraclough Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:39:26 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231094 Once you break a routine, it seems hard to get back to it and experience the same results. You've changed and your circumstances have changed. Some times I thinks it is best to set up a new routine which incorporates the best of what worked before that fits the new situation and new elements that will spark things now. It is a really hard thing to do. Once you break a routine, it seems hard to get back to it and experience the same results. You’ve changed and your circumstances have changed. Some times I thinks it is best to set up a new routine which incorporates the best of what worked before that fits the new situation and new elements that will spark things now. It is a really hard thing to do.

]]> By: toni mcgee causey http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231091 toni mcgee causey Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:04:20 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231091 Yeah, Syl, I'm the same night owl as you are. I've always been that way and I had a lot of years of a "regular" schedule--everyone thought that if I just went to sleep earlier, I'd wake up earlier and everything would shift. Well, not really. If I get up early, even habitually (months), I still end up tired in the evening, but catch that second wind around ten or eleven, and then next thing I know, it's 2 a.m. and the writing is going gangbusters. I finally just gave in and napped before the kids came home and then when they went to bed and spent time with my husband, I would get to do the writing. I will probably always adhere to that schedule, especially during crunch time. It's just when I think the best! Yeah, Syl, I’m the same night owl as you are. I’ve always been that way and I had a lot of years of a “regular” schedule–everyone thought that if I just went to sleep earlier, I’d wake up earlier and everything would shift. Well, not really. If I get up early, even habitually (months), I still end up tired in the evening, but catch that second wind around ten or eleven, and then next thing I know, it’s 2 a.m. and the writing is going gangbusters. I finally just gave in and napped before the kids came home and then when they went to bed and spent time with my husband, I would get to do the writing. I will probably always adhere to that schedule, especially during crunch time. It’s just when I think the best!

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231088 S. J. Day Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:51:18 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231088 I think I'm just going to have to suck it up and work my life around my creative schedule. It has to be better than sitting in the chair all day and watching very little happen. I can get more pages written from 12-2 AM than I can all day. Why fight it? It's exhausting. I so envy you your personal at-home trainer. You're right. Your health is important. I don't know how you do all you do, but I admire you, Steph! I think I’m just going to have to suck it up and work my life around my creative schedule. It has to be better than sitting in the chair all day and watching very little happen. I can get more pages written from 12-2 AM than I can all day. Why fight it? It’s exhausting.

I so envy you your personal at-home trainer. You’re right. Your health is important. I don’t know how you do all you do, but I admire you, Steph!

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231087 S. J. Day Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:47:28 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231087 Chica, I feel the same way about your world. So glad I get to watch it happen for you. ((hugs)) Chica, I feel the same way about your world. So glad I get to watch it happen for you. ((hugs))

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231086 S. J. Day Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:45:14 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231086 *blushing* Thank you! That's actually lovely to hear. Motivates me to have motivated you. Coffee is good every minute of every hour of every day of the week. :) *blushing* Thank you! That’s actually lovely to hear. Motivates me to have motivated you.

Coffee is good every minute of every hour of every day of the week. :)

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231085 S. J. Day Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:43:14 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231085 Happy Anniversary!! Your exercise routine is way better than my ass-in-chair routine, believe me. Be proud. :) I have an speculative project in the works, too. I can't help it. The darn story wants to be written and it won't leave me alone. Would be okay if I was writing as fast as I used to, but since that's not the case... Happy Anniversary!!

Your exercise routine is way better than my ass-in-chair routine, believe me. Be proud. :)

I have an speculative project in the works, too. I can’t help it. The darn story wants to be written and it won’t leave me alone. Would be okay if I was writing as fast as I used to, but since that’s not the case…

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231084 S. J. Day Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:39:00 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231084 Thank you! ((hugs)) My Outlook sorts everything into folders and pops up alerts when my editors/agent emails, but I really need to be able to shut out everything else. Is it a lack of willpower? I think so. Bad Sylvia. Thank you! ((hugs))

My Outlook sorts everything into folders and pops up alerts when my editors/agent emails, but I really need to be able to shut out everything else. Is it a lack of willpower? I think so. Bad Sylvia.

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231083 S. J. Day Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:36:43 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231083 I miss my gym. :( I have the time. I really do. But for some reason, I don't feel especially creative until after midnight. I'm wondering if that's something that can be wrestled around, or if I just have to go with it and make things fit around that quirk. I miss my gym. :(

I have the time. I really do. But for some reason, I don’t feel especially creative until after midnight. I’m wondering if that’s something that can be wrestled around, or if I just have to go with it and make things fit around that quirk.

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231082 S. J. Day Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:32:37 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231082 Sugar kills me, too. And carbs. I really only feel great when I'm on the Atkins diet. Chocolate... I can't go there. I'll wax poetic all day. :) Sugar kills me, too. And carbs. I really only feel great when I’m on the Atkins diet.

Chocolate… I can’t go there. I’ll wax poetic all day. :)

]]> By: S. J. Day http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/07/26/withdrawal/#comment-231081 S. J. Day Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:31:00 +0000 http://www.murdershewrites.com/?p=2752#comment-231081 Thank you! ((hugs)) Nothing can get the best of you, darlin'. You're too fabulous. Thank you! ((hugs))

Nothing can get the best of you, darlin’. You’re too fabulous.

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