#AtoZChallenge 2020: I is for I

I did not sleep last night—I mean, I did not sleep at all—and no sleep means no post. Not the post I’d planned anyway.

Here’s the thing: I didn’t sleep last night because I’d been writing the Day H post. I was engaged. I was focused—hyperfocused. My brain buzzed. I was on. I was up. I was wired.

That is my process: I’m most creative at night. And once my brain starts buzzing, it doesn’t stop.

I completed the post, clicked Publish, went to bed. . . .

. . . breathed deeply, emptied my mind, mentally repeated Ommmmmmmmmmmmm, breathed deeply, emptied my mind . . . thrashed around . . .

Three hours later, I got up, read for a while. Drank two cups of chamomile tea, which proved neither soporific nor tasty.

And here I am, nearly midnight, still awake. But not for long.

I’m writing, true. But hyperfocusing? Buzzing? On? Up? Wired?

Heck, I ain’t even creative.

G’night.

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