Sometimes I wake up early* to work. It's when I get my best writing done. Today I sat with my coffee, and fidgeted with worry-beads of problems until I'd sorted them out in my head. Nothing to do with writing, just the stuff of life that's been getting in the way of the work that needs to get done. By 5 am--two hours after my alarm--I'd come up with the perfect solutions to two nagging issues, and about 3 sentences. But now that I've puzzled it all out, my brain is clear to write again. So, a note to myself: sometimes I need to dedicate the best part of my day to worrying, because only then can my brain get back to work.
*Early is questionable- some consider 2 or 3 am the middle of the night. I'm not one of them.
