Camy's Writing Diary

I went to bed too early yesterday since I was so tired, so I woke up too early again. I slept a little longer last night (almost 7 hours), but I didn’t sleep much better/deeper (keep waking up), so today I’m still feeling a bit tired. Since I’ve been having so many issues with exhaustion lately, as I blogged about yesterday, I’m trying to get my writing done earlier and skimping out on my “frogs” in order to try to get my writing done while I still have the energy. Hopefully I can get my sleep stabilized soon. I’m so frustrated that I’m feeling so tired during the day and that I can’t get deep sleep even if I go to bed early. I did my Japanese this morning, but I took less time than usual. When I woke up, it was too dark to exercise, and I couldn’t do house chores since husband was still asleep, but I set alarms to make sure I do my exercise later. I didn’t set an alarm to do chores since I intend to do that after my writing work, and I don’t know when that’ll end. *** I was go...

I don’t know why I’m not getting a lot of sleep each night, but it happened again. Strangely, my brain doesn't feel all that tired. However, my IBS is acting up a little bit too, maybe because of the lack of sleep, so I’m not feeling 100%, but I’m not feeling like death warmed over, either. Like yesterday, I got up a little too early to be able to exercise first thing after I got up, but yesterday, even though I did my writing first, I did manage to exercise when it got bright enough. I hope to do the same thing today and make sure I do my exercise despite the fact I can’t do it first thing. I don’t quite trust myself to always have the discipline to exercise later in my day, but if I make the effort, I can usually get myself to do it if it’s only once or twice. Yeah, I totally suck at self-discipline and I absolutely don’t trust myself. I’m still blocking book 4. I’m realizing my expanded synopsis was kind of vague at some points because I’m having to rework the synopsis and a...

Unfortunately, I had another bad night’s sleep so I’m not sure how much writing I’ll get done today. I’m feeling rather tired as I’m writing this. Ironically, my poor sleep is because I’m trying to get to bed earlier so I can wake up early, but I’m only getting 3-5 hours of sleep and then waking up TOO early. Then I’m tired and go to bed even earlier, and wake up only a few hours later. My sleep schedule is so messed up right now! But I am very determined that this time I’m going to put more effort into getting onto a stricter sleeping schedule of going to bed between 10 and 12. I am aiming for this schedule so that I can more easily discipline myself into doing my exercise and work every day, and also going to bed at the same time every day. So I know that I'll have a few rough days (or weeks) of trying to adjust my body and feeling tired as a result. It’s just hard suffering through it at the moment. I woke up a bit too early to be able to exercise first thing, so instead...

I have been trying to be more disciplined about going to bed on time and waking up early, but last night I didn’t sleep very well at all, so I hope I’ll still be able to get a lot of work done today. I also had something I needed to do online that was a bit urgent, so I did it right away when I got up. But after I finished doing it, it took me a little while to get myself to start my Japanese learning. It should have been obvious to me, but I’m only now realizing that going online first, even for something urgent and important, derailed my “eating my frogs” routine and is reducing my efficiency. After all, the whole point of doing certain “frogs" first thing in the morning is to make sure I actually do them, because I already know my self-discipline is very poor. If I prioritize some other urgent/important task and don’t do my “frogs" first thing, then of course it’s going to be harder for me to do my “frogs” at all. I already saw that when I was doing writing first thing...

I’ve been looking at my schedule for the past several weeks. I originally intended to do social media/blogging/writing-related business on Saturdays, but I haven’t been doing that at all. Instead (assuming I’m in good health), I’m usually working on my book on Saturdays. I think it’s partly because I don’t like losing momentum. Since I was working on the book all week, when Saturday rolls around, I want to get more done on it, especially if I ended up not getting as much done that week as I wanted to because of health or other reasons. Stopping my writing momentum is not only hard, I dislike doing it because I feel like I should take advantage of it, especially since it often takes a bit more effort to get it going in the first place. Well, if that’s my personality, then maybe the most efficient way is to try to work around my strengths and my weaknesses. So instead of trying to fight my writing momentum, I’m going to try to move that non-writing day to Mondays and see how that goe...