A Day in the Life

Rise, water and fruit, spend about twenty minutes adjusting my spiritual frequency to the world. Think about the day and what it will entail. Recalibrate against the chaos if I've had strange dreams. Dream up what I'd like the rest of the day to look like. Sometimes I choose to read positive affirmations and meditations to begin my day, but it's most likely poetry (though arguably such kinds of writings are very much the same). Reading something that's not the daily news or social media helps refresh the mind and act as a reminder of the importance of seizing the day. Otherwise I think it would be mighty difficult to get one's creative gears flowing.

Though such is part of my morning routine, truth be told I'm not really a "morning person" and have been one to dislike routines for the most part. It's as though my work ethic revs up by night instead. Whatever one's creative clock is, I have always felt a large level of misunderstanding on the very real self-discipline and accountability (i.e. hard work that is focused and deliberately from the heart) required by the writerly life. And even more so for those writers I know who work from home/not a formal outside office. We sit at our desks but are ultimately nomadic. We may be more inclined to domesticity, but inside our minds are a whole set of other rooms that need to be tended to.

Contending with a prodigious and hopefully authentic supply of creative or kinetic energy is a lot of work, especially when you're on deadline. We writers be busy folks.