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GETTING MAD ABOUT WRITING WITH SLEEP DEPRIVATION

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HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT
  FITFULLY, HAUNTED BY THE FEAR THAT I AM ACTUALLY A FRAUD
  LIKE A NORMAL PERSON
  I DO NOT SO MUCH SLEEP AS I DO DREAM DARK DREAMS OF UNDYING HORRORS BEYOND THE EDGE OF SPACE
  LIKE A BABY AND ALSO I SOMETIMES LAUGH AT OTHER PEOPLE WITH INFERIOR SLEEPING ABILITIES
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Waltzkrieg

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 10:57 am


I am REALLY ANGRY about the fact that I have not had a restful night's sleep since this started!!!

BRAIN WHY WON'T YOU SLEEP. I EVEN ATE BENADRYL LAST NIGHT AND YOU STILL WOULDN'T SHUT DOWN

I'M SO TIRED

WRITING IS TOO HARD WHEN I AM NOT RESTED

AAAA
PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:56 pm


YOU SOUND LIKE ME RIGHT NOW. gonk

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Supinelu

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:32 pm


I actually...like writing with little sleep?
/is shot

I'm probably just used to doing it as I am doing everything else on no sleep.
Ahem. RAWWWRGH NO SLEEP BAD.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:36 pm


Sevi Rais
YOU SOUND LIKE ME RIGHT NOW. gonk

WHY ARE WE ALL NOT SLEEPING emotion_donotwant

Supinelu
I'm probably just used to doing it as I am doing everything else on no sleep.
Ahem. RAWWWRGH NO SLEEP BAD.

HEY IT'S THAT PERSON WITH THE COOL USERNAME

It may be that your baseline lack of sleep makes this easier for you. Personally everything I write while sleep deprived is really, inexcusably bad.

Waltzkrieg

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Supinelu

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:56 pm


Waltzkrieg

Supinelu
I'm probably just used to doing it as I am doing everything else on no sleep.
Ahem. RAWWWRGH NO SLEEP BAD.

HEY IT'S THAT PERSON WITH THE COOL USERNAME

It may be that your baseline lack of sleep makes this easier for you. Personally everything I write while sleep deprived is really, inexcusably bad.


I thought I recognized you. Small world ;p

I'm not sure whether to take that as a good thing or not. But it's a logical conclusion.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:16 pm


Sleep deprivation is evil. Really. Ah, the pains of being a Nano-ing writer~.

(I actually normally get only 2-3 hours of sleep a night, so I'm all too used to writing while exhausted out of my mind. Dx)

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:41 pm


I know the feeling, i just been tried and not been able to write much at all. I have my story out in my head, just can't seem to write it DX
PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:08 pm


Chezhire3Kat
(I actually normally get only 2-3 hours of sleep a night, so I'm all too used to writing while exhausted out of my mind. Dx)

Oh my god, how do you function. I had a friend who lived like this for years and I don't understand how she's still alive

Supinelu
I thought I recognized you. Small world ;p

It's definitely a small world for FFXII fans emotion_kirakira
People who like this game are people I remember emotion_kirakira

MikuHatsune0001
I know the feeling, i just been tried and not been able to write much at all. I have my story out in my head, just can't seem to write it DX

My problem is that my outline has TOO MUCH STUFF so unless I really cut a bunch of what I see as important character development I will only be 1/4 of the way through the story at the 50 page mark, which means I'm going to have to keep writing MORE things after NaNo and I just... I don't know if I have it in me... Not when my eyes are still crusted shut after four cups of coffee...

Waltzkrieg

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:46 pm


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I'm totally not sleep deprived :3 [/shot]

I don't go to bed 'till like, 11 PM my time, and I get up around 6:30 AM, but I am thankfully ahead.
I'll probably get more hectic as the month continues...



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:13 pm


@Waltzkrieg: Some would say I don't. xD All I can say is, caffeine is a miracle drug. You'd think that with all these extra hours I would get more done, but I really don't.

@Miku (hopefully you don't mind me shortening your name- I have chronic laziness): Ack, I hate it when that happens. ._. Sometimes, you just gotta trudge through it! … Or write 'the' a thousand times until something better comes out. You know, whatever comes first.

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Waltzkrieg

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:57 am


IT'S FOUR IN THE DAMN MORNING OVER HERE

SOBBING
PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:00 pm


I've been waking up at 6am thus far every day. ughughugh crying

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Waltzkrieg

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:44 pm


Sevi Rais
I've been waking up at 6am thus far every day. ughughugh crying

I would love dearly to be able to wake up consistently at 6am. Means I could make breakfast and go for a morning walk while it was still the right time of day for those things.

Instead my body's like "Sleeping on a schedule? Ha! ROUTINES ARE FOR SUCKERS, HERE STAY UP UNTIL THE SUN RISES AND THEN SLEEP ALL DAY!"
PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:06 pm


Waltzkrieg
XDD! You're hilarious! I don't like to sleep during the day either. I try to sleep during Nano, but it's like my mind is ...

NO! NO SLEEP! KEEP WRITING!

But I ... sleep.... Sleep!

KEEP DOING THE WRITING!

But .. I...

WRITE! WRITE!


But it's good to know that my circumstances are actually desired by some! Makes me feel humble. (:

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Supinelu

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 4:03 pm


Sevi Rais
Waltzkrieg
XDD! You're hilarious! I don't like to sleep during the day either. I try to sleep during Nano, but it's like my mind is ...

NO! NO SLEEP! KEEP WRITING!

But I ... sleep.... Sleep!

KEEP DOING THE WRITING!

But .. I...

WRITE! WRITE!


But it's good to know that my circumstances are actually desired by some! Makes me feel humble. (:

Oh yes, that sounds pleasant actually. I force myself to go to bed, sleep very few hours, force myself to get up and do crap all day until it's time to try again.

Otherwise I don't think I'd get up at all currently. Consistently going to bed at 9pm and getting up at 5am for that one blessed week I did was the best week of my life, in retrospect.
Sorry for being depressive sweatdrop
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