Write-Ins Write On

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I said I would host a few write-ins at work which I am so excited about. I only had one person there today but it was fun and she asked if we could do a sprint together so we did a little fifteen minute sprint and it was amazing! I got a few more words written. I’ve got enough words now to buy the book I’ve been dying to get!

I haven’t written this many words in this short a time in months so I have to say that this has been a pretty effective way of motivating me to write. The sprint I did was fiction too which I haven’t written since… well, gosh I’m not sure. It’s been a minute though. I really haven’t written much of anything that wasn’t me ranting since before the workshop so I’m really pleased about that.

I really just want to read my book tonight. And sleep.

It’s been a fun day overall and I’m looking forward to tomorrow too. I enjoy Tuesdays because I can sleep in, lol. I got to sleep in today too so that was great. Wednesday there’s a morning meeting so I’ll have to be in BY 8 and Thursday I’m going to one of the other branches to help with a program they’re having for teens. I’m excited and nervous about that too.

My days go by so fast at the library for the most part. I know that part of it is that I’m new and anything new has a certain amount of “not-mundane” to it, but I’m really enjoying myself so far. Today was over in a blink. What’s nice about that is that I feel like I’m tired in good ways. I’m also getting more rest overall. I’m not sleeping as much on the weekends either because I’m not as exhausted at the end of the week. I track my sleep using the “Sleep Cycle” app. I started tracking it in August at Scholastic and my average sleep per night was just under 6.5 hours. I know there are people who sleep less than that, but keep in mind that was including the 10-11 hours I’d sleep on weekends and days off.

And here’s the other part of that: I am not an insomniac. I don’t have any trouble going to sleep or staying asleep. My problem was going to bed--I’m better at it now and with the slight change in hours, I’m able to sleep a little later. Between the new hours and being better at going to bed, my average is now nearly to 7 hours (6 hours and 59 minutes)!

I know lots of people get much less sleep because they can’t get to sleep or they can’t stay asleep or some horrible combination of those things and it honestly hurts my heart that people are so badly rested because they can’t sleep. I was exhausted and sick with lack of sleep because I was doing it to myself. I was choosing not to get the sleep I so badly needed and that is not the same issue.

Anyway, I’m going to head to my bed for the night. Good luck to my other writer friends!