Dark

If you’ve read my posts at all over the past several years, you might know that I get up early each morning to write and do writing things. I do that for about 75 minutes before closing my personal laptop, usually for the day since I separate writing from the job that pays the bills. No doing writing stuff on company time. What people don’t tell you is how tough it is this time of year to get motivated when it’s dark. Let’s be honest, it’s a lot easier during summer when the sun comes up early, often around the time my alarm goes off. Here in December, it’s dark until I’ve been sitting at my desk almost an hour. I’m a sunshine guy and love the heat of summer. Not a fan of extra-long nights. The local high school seems to get started about the time the sun comes up. Even though we don’t have kids that age anymore, out the window I see students walking in the dark or approaching dawn, heads down, plodding along. Can’t be fun for them either. Anyway, this isn’t really a complaint and I hope it doesn’t seem so. More of an observation that getting up and writing can be more difficult than it looks.