Hello, fellow bookcreature.
Spending a year inside the house during this pandemic, I discovered that I made a routine that I didn’t notice I had before. Since Akis, my lovely partner, spends most of his time and especially at night, in front of his computer, he wakes up almost every day after 1:00 - 2:00 pm. I want you to guess who is taking advantage of the situation and spends all of their mornings with his PC. That’s right, ME! That’s what hubbies are for. To steal their jumpers and try to kick them out of the chair and spend some time with their mistress (that’s how I call his computer, don’t judge). But let me start with a short and sad, like my patience, story.
After six months inside the quarantine, my 10 years old laptop decided to leave me alone, with a tablet that I didn’t know how to use and without a keyboard. Having Chi (Akis) all day inside the house I couldn’t write properly, because of his relationship with his mistress, so I had to find solutions. Starting by waking up early and of course by buying a Bluetooth keyboard. I’m telling you, it wasn’t easy in the beginning. First of all, I bought the wrong keyboard. Secondly, I had to learn how to work on the new keyboard and find a way to save my work on the tablet. Luckily my saviours came, like the four horsemen of the apocalypse on their horses. It doesn’t matter that mine were three instead of four, but that’s not the point. Day and night, they sat by my side to teach me about new stuff I didn’t know how to do and create this routine I’m about to describe.
Okay, I know that the story is not short but I’m an author, what did you expect?
The first thing I do when I wake up is to shut down the annoying alarm and cuddle my Chi. You know, to make up for trying to be quiet as possible, for him to wake up as late as he can and I sit more with the mistress.
After, I get up, wash up, make some coffee and pour it in my favourite mug. Do not get confused here, because I don’t have just one. I am a collector and when I say favourite I mean for this week or month.
The next thing on the list is to warm up the mistress with some foreplay. Plug in the headphones put on some music and call my Boos (I mean my friends, don’t worry you will get used to the nicknames after a while) because they are my writing buddies as well.
After some chit-chat and a lot of ”bullying” each other, I get down to business. I have so many docs to count so I choose one according to my mood. Is it going to be my book, a writing challenge, a blog post, a short story, who knows?
Then when Chi wakes up, I move to my desk and continue there, until the night comes and I spend some time with him. Of course, there are some breaks in the middle like launch, bathroom or stretching but I can assure you that they are very easy to forget.
Being an author sometimes (most of the time) can be unhealthy, so you have to always remind yourself to take those breaks by having alarms, a schedule, anything that makes you feel comfortable.
And that’s my almost-daily writing day. Simple to some, boring to others but to me so precious. I never was a routine person but sometimes you need to have one for you to appreciate it.
Take care of yourself and I'll see you soon, Alexa...
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