When is the best time to write? Anytime or You Need Special Time? |
Do we need a special time to write?
If your job is a professional writer who has no other activities besides writing, and you dedicate about 8 hours a day just to write it, the aspect of time is not a big deal. You can write anytime and anywhere.
Managing time to develop writing habits is a problem for people who have other activities and have limited time to write. So should you use the time to write?
The good news, everyone has the same time, which is 24 hours. This is a shared asset that we can use in writing. Are you a beginner writer, or professional writer, have the same time 24 hours a day. The problem, when the right time to write, is not the same for everyone.
When reading journals or books about human productive time, many research results say the morning is the right time to write because our brains release endorphins.
A 2011 study published in the journal Thinking & Reasoning might keep the secret of the best time to try to be inventive and creative. The research conducted by Mareike B. Weith and Rose T. Zacks focuses on how time in a day produces a person's ability to solve problems creatively.
As a result, morning and evening are the right time for creative work such as writing which in Weith and Zacks is called "optimal time". Is that right?
Author at any time
There are three great writers who can be used as a reference. Tony Morisson and Haruki Murakami, prefer writing in the morning. They sleep fast and wake up fast. Perhaps this is also good in terms of health, especially for Murakami who regularly jogs at 07.00 am after writing. At that time the endorphin was probably exploding.
It's different with the Pamuk Orhan. The Turkish writer who was born on June 7, 1952, was more comfortable writing in the middle of the night, where the silence makes even breathing sounds so loud.
I have not read about the work and creative process of the three great writers when building my writing career. I began to be comfortable writing at midnight, after spending all day on campus, and in the afternoon busy with extracurricular activities, especially football on-campus teams.
When I work, I want to change that habit by writing in the morning. But the thing is, I can't sleep early and wake up early. Even if I can do it, I can't be comfortable writing even though I have tried and changed my mindset that I am a writer at any time or a writer who is not bound by time.
There are several short stories that pass to the leading newspapers in Indonesia, actually born in the afternoon in a noisy cafe. All the hubbub around him was not heard by me.
I somewhat agree with Leah McClellan who mentions the best time to write it anytime. According to McClellan, some claim with 100 percent certainty — backed by “scientific” research — that morning people are the most creative in the evening, and vice versa for night owls.
Others are equally certain that early morning - before coffee, before showering, before eating, even before brushing your teeth - is by far the best writing time for everyone. Or that it all has to do with willpower, hormones, and circadian rhythms.
Everyone has their own life rhythm. Even though human mornings are flooded with endorphins, people may not be able to write because there is another job or it is not the best time. In my opinion, a writer must familiarize himself with the ability to write whenever and wherever.
To get there, a writer must get used to it. The routine may be too close to boredom, but it forms the character of authorship. When a writer gets used to writing whenever and wherever and believes that he will be able to, that is what will happen.[]