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writer's...it is late...xox

Writing late at night has always been relaxing for me, even before jumping on here.

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I like it because the baby bird's asleep.

Another night owl with a resident cat salutes you! =o) I know writers are supposed to get up at the crack of sparrow fart in the morning to write deathless prose before going off to their day job. Me, I hate to think of what kind of crap I'd produce while feeling surly and underslept at that hour. At night, the world is blessedly quiet. =o)

The dark side of the day. Perfect.
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Sitting alone at night is writer's heaven. A cat person? Kudos.
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When your thoughts push against you, do you ever push back?

I find the same thing in the early morning (see! I'm here now). Quiet. Stillness. I just prefer that after I've slept! (Also, I'm getting too old to stay up late . . . ) This is a lovely reverie, Caroline.

My best time is the other side of the night, Caroline: the early morning hours when it's still dark and the world has not yet started up again. I lose myself in the still of the morning.

I feel the same way, except for me it is in the early morning while the rest of the world and family sleeps... _r

I think you just sold me with the part about how your mother isn't calling if you write at night...definitely worth a try for the flow and peace you describe.

So true. There's something about the night. For some inexplicable reason, it feels insulated, protected, like I'm in a cocoon. And I find I'm able to open up more, the words flow more freely. Though I get up early, while it's still dark out, just doesn't have the same effect. To all us "night writers" out there! Thanks, Caroline.

I prefer the early morning just before dawn. BTW, sometimes a therapist is just a therapist and a banana is just happy to be just a banana (image ref.). R

I'm like AtHomePilgrim. I leave for work at 6:26, so staying up late doesn't work for me. But I do enjoy the quiet of the morning--I find that things I've been mulling over in my sleep seem to pour out more readily. Nice post.

Sounds like you are riding the alpha wave...

I can identify with that pull in the solitude of the night, that showers me with thoughts and feelings which were shy under daylight. A nice vignette.

A lovely reverie. I've always been a night owl, but I write better in the AM. Besides, at night, "between typing and nothingness" is Letterman and Craig Ferguson.

the surreality of this is just awesome, Caroline. This is like bordering on neurosis/psychosis/insanity. A verbal Salvador Dali painting.

Your fine wine (as I referred to your writing in your last post) is turning to priceless gems.

Robin: I knew you would respond, you night owl writer, you. Writers, writer's, let's call the whole thing off.

Tinkertink69: there's just something zen about it, I guess.

Kathy: that's so adorable that you wrote that.

Shiral: Always glad to meet another mad, nocturnal cat woman:)And rest assured, you will never see me up at the crack of sparrow fart. Because you employed the term "sparrow fart," I will be visiting your blog later and possibly even favoriting you on principle.

Nick: The dark side of the day? I like that. Exactly.

Thoth: It really is a writer's heaven. I know that I could get the same thing out of early morning, but somehow the darkness when it's supposed to be day depresses me, while night darkness encloses me in comfort.

AtHomePilgrim: I always push back:) I guess I should try the early morning thing more often. I don't know though, I think I've always been a night person--even though I do love me a little sunlight, too.

Frank: ah, dark side of the night, eh? THat whole thing about the world not having started up again is pretty appealing. I might have to check out that still of morning you speak of.

Joan H: It's so nice when everyone else is asleep. Especially if you're the kind of person who always does things for others. It's nice when your writing is just for you.

Ann: Worth a try. I love talking to my mother and everyone else who calls, but there's a point in my day (especially since I largely freelance write) where I realize that I've been taking care of everything for everyone and it's 3 pm and I haven't finished my article.

Densie: The cocoon is just it for me. To all us night writers (which is nothing like a Knight Rider, thank god)!

I Do and I did: I believe you on that banana thing (not!). Just before dawn, huh? That's impressive.

The Good Daughter: I do like that idea of being able to draw on things that simmered while you were sleeping.

sophieh: I just looked that up and learned something new. thanks for that. It sounds like that may be it.

FunsunA: That's such a good way of putting it. I love the solitude and it definitely brings out the shy thoughts and feelings. Well put.

Jeff: Ah yes, that's when watching DVDs but not having a TV comes in handy.

Placebostudman: a verbal Salvador Dali painting--I can die happy now.

That is why I am naturally a night owl . . . I like the quiet of the wee hours.

Oh, Owl, I knew you would understand...

And loved the picture too!

Is late at night the same as very early in the morning? I like to write before the sun comes up.

This was lovely, and poetic!

Between typing & nothingness...Eternity!

I also like to write late at night/early in the morning.

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Caroline-

Having read this several times now, I'm altering my original critique. This isn't Dali, This is Edvard Munsch ("The Scream"). Or perhaps Marc Chagall

But still as precious as fine gems!

Me too. I like waiting until all have gone to bed and then, the writing begins (or sometimes the painting).

i love the wee small hours of morning, while its still dark, before the sun and the world wakes up.

yeh, the pull of the moon is strongest at night...

Let me remind the Stud that Dali said,"The only difference in Dali and a crazy man, is that Dali is not crazy."

Well that explains it. I can't manage to stay awake past 11 pm so there no late night inspiration in my writing....sob.

Lou-

Didn't Sigmund say of Dali something to the effect of "that's one screwed up guy"..when you've got Freud saying it, you're onto something

Trilogy: so glad you liked the picture.

Kimberly Manky: sure, late at night and early in the morning count as the same. Thank you!

Lou: something I know that you know a lot about:)

littlewillie: maybe that's what makes you so funny.

Placebo: ooh, I'll take Munsch and Chagall any day.

mypsyche: night is just right for the old painting and writing somehow.

lorianne: that's the exact time I love.

NOVAcatmando: by far!

Lou: I always loved that quote.

Philip: I beg to differ.

Placebo: It's true. If Freud thinks you're batty, you just may be over the moon batty.

I like lonely late night writing too.

Gwendolyn: I thought you might:)

Yes, yes and one more yes. I am with you here and on to something big that does not involve sleep. A heavy arm was over my shoulders and the man held a bottle. He and I attempted to read the paint-embossed fine print, the instructions he sought were how to be a grifter, but we agreed in the half-light that we could not garner nor decipher what apparently had been precise 'instructions'. One contemplates return to silence. Rated, as they say on the Internet. Bravo!

J Hart: thanks for the eloquent, soulful response. You clearly know a little something about the alchemy that occurs at that hour.

Yes!

Donna: I guess you're a late-night writer, too.