For Friday Fun... What time of night does your muse demand audience?

[therosesword]

I'm not one of those writers that needs to be inspired in order to sit down and work at the project at hand.

That said, it doesn't mean that the "Muse" doesn't drop in at all or unexpectedly.

Mine seems to think 1:30 in the morning is the perfect time for a sit down and chit-chat. Like last night. It's happened so often I don't even have to look at the clock. She tends to stay until about 3 a.m. and then leaves... well, more like she drops my brain like the proverbial hot potato.

Any of you have a Muse that show up at inopportune times and when?

[Jenny-Toons]

I've slowly worked up a good compromise with my muse. Beforehand, she used to be pretty finicky about me trying to sketch comic pages on the computer all-day straight. But the moment I started to switch up sketching traditionally and then switching to scripting, she's become more lenient.

So we've created a schedule of sorts:

Early morning and late evenings are for digital comic work So around 8-9 am and around 8-10pm. The afternoon is spent sketching things traditionally and then maybe some scripting here and there.

But come 10pm, we both go to sleep.

[shfra13]

My Muse comes to me when I want to sleep, or right after I turn off my laptop. Maybe she likes having my full attention without anything between us? Oh, also, when I'm trying to do my (sometimes overdue) assignments. She's a bit playful and is trying her best to stray me from my assignments and healthy sleeping schedule! Granted, she does a good job, because I will drop everything to have a chat with her. Well, sometimes I have to stop and remind her that it's not the right time to have a chat; and she either complies or denies my request, depends on her mood. Guess we haven't compromised in our timing.

[Llyrel]

Mine also comes to me when I'm about to fall asleep... and will usually go MIA whenever I have a day off, holidays and/or any actual free time to write XD

[MovieNut14]

Mine always shows up when I'm away from my computer...and promptly flips me off when I sit down to write.

[Dialusion]

Mine is very finicky. Some nights we're in perfect harmony, night turns to day and vice-versa without either of us realizing. Others, we can't find a single thing we agree on and the day and night escapes us. Had to have a long conversation about getting some sleep with them.

I found we work best sometime between 8pm - 11pm to start, with our time going for as long as we're able to stay awake, sometime the entire night, others for maybe an hour.

More often than not, it's midday between 10am and 4pm where ideas seem to flow naturally, with 1pm being our natural peek.

[allenthomas]

Mine is strange. Sometime we work well around noon. Some days after 3pm. Others around 8pm. On rare occasions it will pop up either around 1-2am or 6-7am.

I figured it's best if I just make a schedule for the day and make myself sit down and work just in case she decides to show up.

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

5 AM when I'm lying awake bored waiting for the day to start.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

Actually, it will come automatically when I thought "I haven't been writing."

But whether I will be doing it or not depends on my series' reception and my mood. The lower reception I get from the latest chapter or the worse my mood is, the more unmotivated I am to continue. Sometimes I took longer time to update is because "My audiences are not looking forward to it, anyway" or "Nah, I suck," and decide to draw or do something else instead.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

Similar hours are kept here. You ever get that late-night downer feeling? Like the edge of a depression? That's when I know I can put words down that I'll like. My muse might be a Shundere.

[nostalgicroxas]

2am until 5am is best time, usually on Tuesday mornings oddly.

[Kaydreamer]

Ever heard of biphasic sleeping? Humans used to wake around 1am to 3am after a few hours sleep, go about doing some chores and stuff, then go back to bed for 'second sleep'. Apparently those wee small hours were a golden time for creativity.

I know when my muse is not around! Any time before around 1pm in a creative dead-zone for me. I'm much, much better in the early evenings. Unfortunately, that's also when it's time for like... cooking dinner, and spending quality time with my partner. So I tend to have to stop work right when I'm in flow. It's frustrating, but it also probably stops me from doing further damage to my wrist.

[therosesword]

I have heard of that, there were several articles a few years ago that were out with fabulous illustrations from old Europe. People even went and chatted with neighbors. I'm 3rd generation short sleeper with the same patterns of sleep as my dad and grandfather. I have two basic patterns. 1. go to bed late and get up early for about 4-5 hours of sleep and do just fine through the day or go to bed, sleep two hours, get up and go back to sleep for a couple more. Drove our families nuts.

[Puck]

I used to be a night person but as I got older that changed and I´m a morning person now.
I wake up early every day and start being creative

[CarltonIsaac]

Twenty four seven... till death do us part.

[cherrystark]

All day but usually when I have something else I should or could be doing.