mornings &mdash; Ernest Ortiz Writes Now https://ernestortizwritesnow.com/tag:mornings My chaotic brain needs a place to stay. Author of The Package trilogy. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:06:47 +0000 https://i.snap.as/lcehEm96.jpeg mornings &mdash; Ernest Ortiz Writes Now https://ernestortizwritesnow.com/tag:mornings Getting Used To a Morning Schedule https://ernestortizwritesnow.com/getting-used-to-a-morning-schedule?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[I was never a morning person even when I worked as a private investigator. But I got used to it. Waking my older son up for school still takes getting used to but at least I’m not waking up at 4 to 4:30 am. Still, the idea of sleeping in sounds good right about now. Which is why I don’t like recommending writers to sacrifice their sleep in order to write. I never liked that particular advice. I’ll take sleep more than a few minutes or an hour of writing. More rest is good. writing children mornings school stayathomedad a href="https://remark.as/p/ernestortizwritesnow.com/getting-used-to-a-morning-schedule"Discuss.../a !--emailsub-- ]]> I was never a morning person even when I worked as a private investigator. But I got used to it. Waking my older son up for school still takes getting used to but at least I’m not waking up at 4 to 4:30 am. Still, the idea of sleeping in sounds good right about now.

Which is why I don’t like recommending writers to sacrifice their sleep in order to write. I never liked that particular advice. I’ll take sleep more than a few minutes or an hour of writing. More rest is good.

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