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I have inadvertently found my best time to write.

When I was younger, my best time to write was, well, anytime. Whenever I had a spare moment, it was usually spent writing. As I grew older, I started gravitating towards writing during the night – especially family television time. Since I moved to Australia, I haven’t found the ‘best’ time for writing.

That was, until today.

I was going to give you a schedule of my average day, but it really depends on when I get up, whether I decided to exercise mid-morning or mid-afternoon and if I remember to take breakfast and lunch breaks. All said and done, emails, work, exercise and eating take me from when I wake up to about 3.30pm.

When 3.30 hits, I find myself starting to get antsy and thinking about what I should cook for dinner. That’s when I know it’s time to have a shower or bath, which takes me until about 4pm including drying off time and an email check-in.

Bam! 4pm is time to write.

I don’t know why it took me so long to realize it, but when I sat down at the computer to get back to work at 4 today, I thought, “Wow, I’d rather be writing.”

It’s the perfect time to write as well. I get to stop working for a while and think about something else, the husband won’t be home for at least an hour and any preparation for dinner can be done at five. (Before any of you hate me for knocking off at 3.30 for a hot bath or shower, just know that after the husband gets home, I’m back on the computer working.)

I’m very excited to have found my best time that doesn’t involve me rearranging my life in any major way. One small step in the Year of the Novel.

When do you prefer to write? Do you have a best time?