How my mornings start…

I’m trying to make an effort to post up more frequent blog entries, if only to give my brain a warmup before I jump into my wip for the day.

Some of the following blog entries might be pretty silly, insipid, downright pointless, but I do apologize in advance.

Today, since it is Monday and the beginning of the week, and I just woke up, I’d like to talk about my usual schedule, from the moment I open my eyes to the moment I get to my WIP and start typing for the day.

I wake up in the morning, feeling like P-di—

OOPS. WRONG PERSON, SORRY.

(Incidentally enough, I very rarely wake up feeling like P. Diddy, mostly because I never drink. Would like to, but I’m Asian and I start breaking out in hives if I drink anything vaguely alcoholic. Seriously. Look this up on Google: Asians and alcohol. It’s a thing, I swear)

/clears throat

Okay, so usually, I wake up in the morning around 5/6ish, although since I’m traveling, my waking time is all over the clock, literally. But when I finally decide to get my ass off the bed, couch, floor, whatever, I take a shower immediately to get rid of that dull “IJUSTGOTOUTOFBEDANDCAN’TFORMASINGLECOHERENTTHOUGHT” feeling that makes me wobble all over the place.

Once I get my morning ablutions out of the way, I like to make some coffee (a dollop of cream/milk/half&half, no sugar) and after a cup or two, I like to do some meditating. Meditating is super new to me, but after reading THE MIRACLE MORNING FOR WRITERS by Hal Elrod, I decided to give it a try, since I have such a hard time focusing in the mornings…or anytime for that matter, really.

I’ve never been much for meditating. In fact, I think it’s a bit of a soft science, but I can’t deny the sense of peacefulness and purpose I find when I just close my eyes, relax and think about the day ahead and what I should probably do.

Ten minutes later, I make myself some breakfast, usually an omelet or a fruity breakfast shake, read for about 10-15 minutes (usually a craft book to help get my mind into the writing groove) and then it’s off to my WIP I go.

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So that’s my morning routine. This is basically what happened this morning, minus the meditating because I didn’t feel so out of focus like I usually do. I’ll probably do some meditating later in the day, but for now, I know what I need to do, so it’s all good.

What about you? What is your ritual before you start writing?