Insomnia, a great way to start

So every now and again I fall into a small problem where I have insomnia and instead of sleeping I spend the whole night awake. It leaves me tired, bored, and mostly hungry. However, over the past few years I've developed sort of my own way for dealing with the disease. Instead of going to bed and laying there for hours, nothing getting done, I have developed a strange love to actually just stay up and work on stuff. In the end I feel a little bit more accomplished and I don't worry as much the next day when I sleep during the hours I normally would be awake.

So this is how I spent my night, awake and doing the best I can to be productive in some sort of way. For the most part, this was a failed attempt though. I think I spent a total of two hours writing and in that time did not manage to harbor as many words as I would have preferred. Why? Because I can't seem to find the words to describe the event that I want to happen and so I end up sitting there half dead and half asleep.

Ironically, it is usually through a state of insomnia that I find my way through even the hardest portions of a story, finding the clue I needed to get past a point that was trivial and acting against me. This is also what happened tonight, for although early on I have already found a portion of the book where I did not know what to write to persuade my reader into understanding that stuff was happening. Well, the insomnia kicked in and I knew exactly how to write it. It seems to be a combination of tired and bored come together to form the idea of how I should proceed.

Yet there is a catch to me finding my way through the harder parts of the novel if I do it through insomnia. The number of errors that I tend to write while in this half dead state is increase by approximately 50% (and for the most part, it is probably higher... I'm being generous to myself). Well, to counter this entire factor that I am currently out of my mind, I'm going to have to re-read everything I've written just to insure that the error rate drops and more details to really describe but I initially meant by that part are there. Usually this has proven to include complete rephrasing.

So is insomnia (which honestly was not planned for the first night) really a good thing? It is hard to say. Catch you all after some Zs.

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