Sleep deprivation is seriously cutting into my ability to write. I know, it sounds lame. It's just sleep, right? But as my husband pointed out, sleep dep can be used as a form of torture. Yesterday was a bad day! The baby didn't go down until 5am and I hadn't had a nap at all so I was a mess. Today is better--got a three and a half hour nap in the evening and then the baby went down at 2am and slept through until 6:30 when I had to take Jeff in to work.So I actually feel functional enough to do some writing, which I'm off to do as soon as I'm done with this post. Nathan Bradsford recently wrote a blog post about returning to writing after a long break and he recommended, among other tips, writing anything to get the juices flowing, like a blog post. So here I am. Plus, I like feeling like I'm talking with you guys again--I missed it. It's no fun being isolated from the world. Don't get me wrong, I have a tendency to be a hermit. But I do like to feel connected to people who are interested in the same things I am.
Anyway, I started my decopunk story about a week ago. I wrote about 2700 words, I think, and now I'm going to get back into it. If I can just convince this baby to let me sleep at least five hours every 24 hours (doesn't have to be all at once!) I might even get to where I can maintain some sort of routine again.
What about you? Do you have issues with sleep and writing? How do you handle them?
In my experience, sleep deprivation makes everything harder. When operating on little to no sleep, dimensions of disorientation take me away and all I can really do is doodle into oblivion: nothing coherent, no writing, no homework, just oblivion.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking Nathan's blog post. I'm trying to get back into writing, too. (It's been a VERY long time.) We can cheer each other on!
Awesome, Kathryn, let me get my pom-poms...!
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