Is there a writing hour? There’s a witching hour. You know, that hour in the dead of the night when witches, spirits and other-worldly creatures awaken and are most powerful. If there’s a witching hour, why can’t there be a writing hour?
Perhaps it does exist. Perhaps there is that magical hour, perhaps different for most
writers, but universal in the resultant behavior and other-worldly output, when a writer’s power becomes magical and takes on an almost mystical quality.
The writer in the writing hour
A silent observer might think the writer is in a trance-like state, parked in a seat at the desk in front of the flat screen LCD, head still, eyes rarely blinking, nary a facial muscle moving. The only physical exertion - if you consider typing exertion - is the rapid movement of fingers tapping keys on the keyboard. The body conserves power, diverting the flow of energy to the brain where the ideas and thoughts meld together and produce a continuous torrent of creative content that bursts forth on the screen.
What time of day or night could contain the writing hour? Could it be mid-morning, the brain jolted into high gear by caffeine? Or could it be in the deep of the night, when eerie silence stirs evocative emotions?
Beware the writer during writing hour. Writer interrupted could befall a terrible fate upon the guilty one.
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