[My Leap Year is a 12-month life project (begun 11/01/07) at the end of which I intend to be writing full-time. 365 small steps = 1 giant leap.]

Like the fancy new counter? I worked it up after reading this intriguing post by Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired magazine (among other things–I recommend a visit to his very interesting website).

I didn’t write or post at all yesterday, and none of you pestered me. Where’s the accountability?

Of course, I didn’t write today, either. Except for those first two days, I’m having a real tough time with these early mornings. I’ve observed in the past that, left to my own devices, I tend to write most naturally between 2 and 6 in the afternoon. But my shifts at work either end at 6 or start at 2, so obviously that won’t work. As I was thinking the situation over in the shower this morning (I do a lot of great thinking in the shower), I remembered another passage from the same John Rogers interview I referred to a couple weeks ago:

“Some scripts seem to write better in different parts of the day. I’ve had two movies that just refused to show up on the page until after 9 at night. I hate those, but there’s nothing you can do about it. You just know that your subconscious is doing this for a reason, and you dig in. However, I still put in the hours on those pages, just at a different time.

“That didn’t use to bother me, but I have to admit — I hit forty this year, and that’s beginning to beat the hell out of me when it happens.”

If our subconscious assigns certain times of day to certain projects, then maybe part of my problem is not choosing morning projects. Of course, even if this is true I don’t think there’s a way to discover which projects are morning projects other than to get up every morning and write until something clicks. Which is what I’d be doing anyway.

Day off tomorrow. Must. Produce. Pages.