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2012

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, I wouldn’t get a wink of sleep.My best advice is the advice and words of wisdom I tell myself at night in order to sleep because it works. I need to sleep to survive and my body will always find a way to calm me down so that I can fall asleep.That is why it’s essential to keep a notebook by your bed so that when you’re having your anxious and sometimes irrational 3 a.m. thoughts, you can record the new found-wisdom that helps you to calm down and fall asleep.It is one of the best ways to generate new story ideas because you will feel passionate about what you write. You will actually believe that you are helping someone because the advice that you are writing down helped you. It helped you fall asleep when you desperately needed it and therefore is much more likely to help someone else than a list of other people’s ideas of good advice.<h1 id="ed31">Brainstorm your ideas at night</h1>When the sun goes down and darkness falls, my mind always goes into overdrive. I over-analyze every situation and everything I said during the day. Worry sets in for the next day and anticipating how it will go.My problems always seem to multiply at night. During the day, I never think of these things, they don’t even cross my mind but at night, just before I start to get ready for bed and the daylight is gone, my brain jumps into sixth gear.Because of this somewhat annoying trait, I like to think that I do my best thinking at night.My mind becomes most active at night when it comes to the matters of my personal life and my problems. When it becomes dark outside, my mind somehow shifts from happy and unbothered to extremely pensive and often anxious. I’m more in tune with my feelings and thoughts at night time.I have decided to capitalize on this weird phenomenon that is my overactive and pensive night-time mind by brainstorming my story ideas at night. It allows

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me to truly tap into my brain and evoke thoughts that I would never have in day time hours when the sun is up. The day time means productivity and work and the night is reserved for deep thoughts and deep emotions.Vulnerability is welcomed at night because your work for the day is done and there is nothing stopping you from travelling to an entirely different world of thoughts and perspectives of your life.At night you will find yourself questioning your friends, your advice, your work, and your writing amongst countless other things simply because of the thing I like to call the over-active and pensive night time brain.<h1 id="ec7d">Final thoughts</h1>The internet is full of content that doesn’t say a whole lot. Instead of adding to the problem by not being able to write something meaningful and helpful, listen to your 3 a.m. thoughts because, contrary to popular belief, you speak a lot of sense when your desperate for sleep and trying to calm yourself down.The advice that you need to tell yourself at night for you to go to sleep is also the advice that other people need to read from your writing. Don’t just push the memory and advice out of your head, never to relive that sleepless night again. Write it down and capitalize on it because it’s great advice that people need to hear.Our minds work in strange ways at night. Oftentimes they’re so strange that we dread the fall of darkness and the commencement of the deep and unsettling thoughts about our lives. But these are the thoughts that turn into great ideas that make unbelievable stories. Instead of dreading the end of the daylight, embrace your night-time mind and brainstorm some story ideas.People are afraid of the dark because they don’t know what’s in front of them, but that’s the whole point. Embrace the unknown emotions and thoughts you have at night and use them to your advantage in your writing.</article></body>

Stop Being Afraid of The Dark

Your anxious 3 a.m. thoughts will transform your writing

Recently I have been feeling out of touch with my writing. Everything I write seems uninspiring and meaningless to me. My drafts are filled with stories that have an abundance of words but say nothing.

That is why my recent drafts have stayed as drafts. I don’t want to add to the problem of meaningless content online. I started writing so that I could say something, not fill up space with worthless words that don’t add value to anyone.

The past few weeks have left me feeling rather uninspired with my writing so I decided to take a look at what in my life, actually inspires good stories and how I can generate meaningful story ideas with valuable advice to share in them.

Listen to and write down your anxious 3 a.m. thoughts

I have my most anxious thoughts at night and they often spiral out of control. I work myself up into a very disturbed and restless state of mind in the middle of the night when I’m trying to sleep. My mind will always find things to worry about at night, without fail. Sometimes I think that it’s the most reliable thing in my life.

If something can go pear-shaped in my life, my mind will convince me that it will, especially when I’m trying to fall asleep.

Subsequently, I also come up with my best advice and words of wisdom at night when I’m trying to calm myself down and go to sleep. At night when my thoughts are spiralling out of control, my voice of reason is always there to calm me down. Otherwise, I wouldn’t get a wink of sleep.

My best advice is the advice and words of wisdom I tell myself at night in order to sleep because it works. I need to sleep to survive and my body will always find a way to calm me down so that I can fall asleep.

That is why it’s essential to keep a notebook by your bed so that when you’re having your anxious and sometimes irrational 3 a.m. thoughts, you can record the new found-wisdom that helps you to calm down and fall asleep.

It is one of the best ways to generate new story ideas because you will feel passionate about what you write. You will actually believe that you are helping someone because the advice that you are writing down helped you. It helped you fall asleep when you desperately needed it and therefore is much more likely to help someone else than a list of other people’s ideas of good advice.

Brainstorm your ideas at night

When the sun goes down and darkness falls, my mind always goes into overdrive. I over-analyze every situation and everything I said during the day. Worry sets in for the next day and anticipating how it will go.

My problems always seem to multiply at night. During the day, I never think of these things, they don’t even cross my mind but at night, just before I start to get ready for bed and the daylight is gone, my brain jumps into sixth gear.

Because of this somewhat annoying trait, I like to think that I do my best thinking at night.

My mind becomes most active at night when it comes to the matters of my personal life and my problems. When it becomes dark outside, my mind somehow shifts from happy and unbothered to extremely pensive and often anxious. I’m more in tune with my feelings and thoughts at night time.

I have decided to capitalize on this weird phenomenon that is my overactive and pensive night-time mind by brainstorming my story ideas at night. It allows me to truly tap into my brain and evoke thoughts that I would never have in day time hours when the sun is up. The day time means productivity and work and the night is reserved for deep thoughts and deep emotions.

Vulnerability is welcomed at night because your work for the day is done and there is nothing stopping you from travelling to an entirely different world of thoughts and perspectives of your life.

At night you will find yourself questioning your friends, your advice, your work, and your writing amongst countless other things simply because of the thing I like to call the over-active and pensive night time brain.

Final thoughts

The internet is full of content that doesn’t say a whole lot. Instead of adding to the problem by not being able to write something meaningful and helpful, listen to your 3 a.m. thoughts because, contrary to popular belief, you speak a lot of sense when your desperate for sleep and trying to calm yourself down.

The advice that you need to tell yourself at night for you to go to sleep is also the advice that other people need to read from your writing. Don’t just push the memory and advice out of your head, never to relive that sleepless night again. Write it down and capitalize on it because it’s great advice that people need to hear.

Our minds work in strange ways at night. Oftentimes they’re so strange that we dread the fall of darkness and the commencement of the deep and unsettling thoughts about our lives. But these are the thoughts that turn into great ideas that make unbelievable stories. Instead of dreading the end of the daylight, embrace your night-time mind and brainstorm some story ideas.

People are afraid of the dark because they don’t know what’s in front of them, but that’s the whole point. Embrace the unknown emotions and thoughts you have at night and use them to your advantage in your writing.