Writers are creatures of habit. My own writing routine is to get up crazy early before I have to be at work and write the day awake. I've been doing it that way for years. Decades, even. Then the time change comes.
When you're young it's not such a big deal. A few extra yawns at school on Monday and by Friday you're acclimated. But time holds still for no one. As an adult, it takes more time to adjust to changes in your schedule. Suddenly what used to be 4 a.m. is now 5 a.m. You have to get out of bed at what feels like 3:00. The writer's schedule suffers.
Daylight Saving Time was a contingency invented by the Germans during the world wars. In order to maximize the usable light, they changed their clocks from standard time so that early morning light (my favorite) wouldn't be wasted. Better to have later at night light. Obviously, they weren't writers.
So I get up in the morning, ready to write, but *yawn* I can't concentrate so early! It'll take me more than a few days to bounce back. We writers live on our own time anyway—perhaps there should be a special rule for writers, allowing them to keep their regular time?
Even our computers, though, change the time automatically. It used to be that only the gods had such power. Well, with Silicon Valley being what it is, maybe it's still the gods in charge of our clocks.
Where did I leave off that story? Funny, I don't recall being so fuzzy-headed yesterday morning when I got up to write. I have nothing against the Germans, of course. They were only being practical. Logical. Now, with advances in technology, it would be logical to stop shuffling the time around. If Daylight Saving Time is better, why not keep it all year round?
Don't mind me. I'm just headed back to the kitchen for another cup of coffee. And maybe then I'll be able to remember what I was writing about just twenty-three hours ago. Or was it twenty-five hours ago? Only the gods know.
When you're young it's not such a big deal. A few extra yawns at school on Monday and by Friday you're acclimated. But time holds still for no one. As an adult, it takes more time to adjust to changes in your schedule. Suddenly what used to be 4 a.m. is now 5 a.m. You have to get out of bed at what feels like 3:00. The writer's schedule suffers.
Daylight Saving Time was a contingency invented by the Germans during the world wars. In order to maximize the usable light, they changed their clocks from standard time so that early morning light (my favorite) wouldn't be wasted. Better to have later at night light. Obviously, they weren't writers.
So I get up in the morning, ready to write, but *yawn* I can't concentrate so early! It'll take me more than a few days to bounce back. We writers live on our own time anyway—perhaps there should be a special rule for writers, allowing them to keep their regular time?
Even our computers, though, change the time automatically. It used to be that only the gods had such power. Well, with Silicon Valley being what it is, maybe it's still the gods in charge of our clocks.
Where did I leave off that story? Funny, I don't recall being so fuzzy-headed yesterday morning when I got up to write. I have nothing against the Germans, of course. They were only being practical. Logical. Now, with advances in technology, it would be logical to stop shuffling the time around. If Daylight Saving Time is better, why not keep it all year round?
Don't mind me. I'm just headed back to the kitchen for another cup of coffee. And maybe then I'll be able to remember what I was writing about just twenty-three hours ago. Or was it twenty-five hours ago? Only the gods know.
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