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I've been spending more time writing during lockdown since I've been off work; however, I'm finding it difficult to turn my mind off from my writing and my ideas. Sometimes I go to bed still thinking about my story and then wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. I don't always turn my laptop off at a decent time and I know it's affecting my sleep. I'm finding it difficult to relax and feel shattered because of it. Has anyone got any solutions to this problem? Or is it a common one among writers?
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You can then be thinking about writing when you're doing other things rather than when you should be sleeping. For example, I'm forever popping in and out of the garden, doing small tasks for 15 mins or half an hour, then leaving the lap top on so when I come in I can immediately note anything down that I need to.
I don't have trouble sleeping at all.
Or you could get drunk, but crosswords are better for your liver!
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- scribble on a notepad in the dark (takes deciphering bad hand-writing to a whole new level in the morning),
- get up and go to bathroom with notepad (I once wrote a whole story in the loo in Thailand at 2am),
- convince myself I'll remember in the morning by repeating the idea over and over again (I never do),
- convince myself it's a rubbish idea and go back to sleep.