Quoted from Alan_Holman Hecate.  I see you're in London.  I've got a friend named Leanne who lives in London -- do you know her?  If you know anyone in Canada, I'll stick my head out of my igloo and tell them you said "hi".

Alan - I don't know anyone called Leanne, but then there's an awful lot of people in London, lol.  I do know someone in Canada, but he's in Nelson, BC, which I think is a long way from Saskatchewan (sp?)

We don't have Mountain Dew in the UK, but we do have something called Red Bull, which is a high-caffeine soda.  It tastes like cough medicine and makes you run around all day.

And caffeine-flavoured water?? Whatever next...

I finally got round to putting my outline onto post-it notes late last night and sticking them onto the wall...so far this morning it still seems like a good idea...

It's 8.30pm here in Melbourne and I just wrote the treatment for my latest short "The Informer". Now I feel like I can jump into bed and watch the last half of "Primer". Goodnight

Yeah.  I know what that's like.  I don't feel good about going to sleep until I've accomplished a goal in writing.  It's 5am now ... and I haven't ... so I'll toss and turn.  G'night.

Don't feel too bad Al. As I went to bed my mind was awash with ideas about how to make the treatment better. So just when you think you've finished something.......

Quoted from Hecate we do have something called Red Bull, which is a high-caffeine soda.  It tastes like cough medicine and makes you run around all day.

OMG!! Red Bull, yay! We have that in the states too! I love it. Some people say it can stop your heart but I like to live life on the edge .

Quoted from Takeshi Don't feel too bad Al. As I went to bed my mind was awash with ideas about how to make the treatment better. So just when you think you've finished something.......

Yeah ... "just when you think you're finished something" is right.  I don't know how many times I've been excited that Banana Chan was finally its final edit, only to find something a few days later that has to change.  But I think it's a good sign that lately the internal debates about things to cut have taken a while.  I've been debating internally for a few days now, about whether or not to cut or adjust a particular short monologue.

I write between 1-5am. For some reason, I don't sleep on weekends. I get to sleep around 2 on weeknights.

I find that what i'm writing depends on when I write. For example if i'm writing something lighthearted and or funny then day writing suits me best. However if i'm writing something darker like a horror piece, then night writing is best.  My mood changes with the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon I guess.

[face=Times][/face][b][/b]I am a completely different type of writer at night than during the day. All of my strangest and goriest ideas come to me from 11 pm to 4 am, and I find I finish more pages.

Quoted from Pard My mood changes with the setting of the sun

Same here, buddy.  At night time, I'm better at writing deep and emotional things.  

I think it's the whole distractions thing.  All I know for sure, though, is that when I force myself to write in the daytime I delete all of that writing later on, because it's awful.
I also tend to do my best thinking in the night; I just walk all over the house playing the scenes in my head.  I can be very bizarre as I'm doing that; like I'll enter a room, turn on the light, walk through it, maybe pace a bit, then leave and turn off the light, walking somewhere else.  This is scary because over ten minutes I could end up walking into the same room three times, each time turning the lights on and off.  

I write at night, 12am-8am sometimes depending on how I feel.

I find it peaceful and I feel more comfortable writing that time.