Once more unto Dorothea brande

Actually it's going quite well. More says then not over the last two weeks or so I've woken at 7.00 with my vacuum of coffee, done a brief meditation and started writing. I usually manage about 45 minutes before the urge to check emails and such becomes too great. I'm not sure I'm getting more in tune with my subconscious but I do write. I'm going to try and keep it going for a while longer and see what else Dorothea has to say.

Dorothea Brande again

For the last week I've been trying as well as I can to follow the Dorothea Brande approach. That is to say I have been setting the alarm for 7.00 making myself a vacuum flask of coffee and hitting the keyboard as soon as the PC powers up without venturing onto email or anything else. Probably I should try a few minutes meditation first but I haven't yet. I'd say that I'm still undecided. It certainly means that I start the day with a few hundred words written, that's true. On the other hand I feel half dead when I wake up. Does everyone feel that way? I never know. It is getting better though, I think. I can't say that it really helps me better tune into my subconscious. On the other hand the ideas seem to come as well as they do at any other time. I can't really say whether they're better or not. I'm going to keep trying for a while longer.

Doing it the Dorothea Brande way

Well, as I said I would I've been trying the last couple of mornings to follow her prescription which, as I said, does make sense to me. I was successful in getting straight to writing after awaking ar 7.00 am. This morning I even had coffee made the night before and kept in a thermos according to her recommendation. I kept at it but I can't say, I felt all that inspired, I started at 7.10 and by 8.00 I was folding. Perhaps, it was because I was revising Ch 4 Sc 3 rather than writing something completely new.  And I didn't, one thing and another, get to writing through the rest of the day. I shall persevere as well as I can though as I do think her approach sounds like a good one based on all I have learnt.