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hilarious, roberta! I love the bags under her eyes. (I’m definitely not!)

Very bealtiful! Cute!!!!!!!!!!!

Roberta, very funny!!!! good job. congrats!.i think that the worm dont must to wake up so early this morning!

oh, I’m the second one, these are soooooooooooooooooooo cute. I love, love, love that nest, absolutely great!

o-m-g, Roberta!!!!!!! these are great, and sooooo funny … I’m the second one ;o)

Hey Roberta! I fell in love with the thumbnail pic on the IF site. I knew your illustration would blow me away and it did! It took about 46 years, but I finally became an early bird. Now I’ll never go back ) Great one my friend!

hey there beautiful! You have been busy and of course you are early!!! I love both of them. how fabulous. I am the early riser. My husband and daughter can’t stand it. I am up with the chickens really. I have been getting up at 3 or 4am for most of my life. My mother started this foolishness. She and I worked at the same hospital for many years and drove to work together. Sleeping late was not an option for us. If she got up you got up. This is wonderful girly. I love all this rich, rich detail that you are putting into your pieces. They come to life with color and expression. It’s wonderful to see. Hope all is well with you.
V

completely wonderful…the best “early bird” illustration I have seen so far.

Oh, I’m SO familiar with getting up in the wee hours of the morning…but I wish I had a furry pink robe and slippers like that!!

hahahahahahhahaha how cute!!! love em both, esp the coffee owl – she sure does remind me of my husband whenever he wakes up in the morning … great work!

just like my dad and mum
hold on little worm

This is quite similar to how I used to do NaNoWriMo: I would write for at least an hour before breakfast, even, having (and this was the most inportant thing) turned off the wireless card the night before. Kid care and an inability to do plot thinking while waking up kind of torpedoed it not long after, though.

I’m more a lunchtime writer now, but that probably needs to change since I am getting little enough done that current approaches obviously aren’t working. Maybe I need to try the morning approach again, as long as I have an outline for the day’s writing.

Love that pic! That’s me! The slippers, the clothes, the hair, the mug (but it’s tea)… I’m sorting out all this when-to-write stuff. I get worn out from my mornings with kiddos, but working on not staying up so late.

Okay. No online until I write. And if you’re a Mac user, downloading “Freedom” can help…

During Script Frenzy, I decided to write first thing one morning and found it was easier to write and made for a much better beginning to the day. I really liked the how it changed the dynamic of my day. So, like you, I’m trying to make it a habit.

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to manage the new influence of Twitter in my life, as well as blogging and Facebooking, etc. against my actual novel-writing and other professional work. This sounds like a great idea, and I just might try it out. Thank you!

My routine is one of hurry up and write-hurry up and sleep. When I get off work between 4am to 5am I try to get in at least thirty mins. in before laying down for short nap (bout thirty mins worth). After I get my son ready for school and see him on the bus I get in another two hours in before going to sleep. I wake up and write again for about thirty mins before son gets home from school. From there it’s ten mins writing here and 15mins there but I try my best to get the two hour base line in.

The Write or Die has helped a lot in aiding me in making the best of the time I have.

I find that first thing in the morning is my best time, too. Even if it’s just for a short period of time, writing before the working day starts gets the project churning in the back of my brain. For the rest of my day, my writing switch is “on” and I’m ready to go whenever I can carve out more writing time.

I think that is a great suggestion…my morning ritual is check email, then I will work on research for my blog and/or my clients…I never have defined a time to write and I want to write more. My issue is it does not start til 9a and often feel like I have lost some time. I am an night owl so I am up until 2a…I think I am going to try writing first thing since that is more of my business time and my quiet time as well. Thanks for your post!

My morning ritual is checking email on my iPhone but I never respond from my phone so it’s pretty quick. Then I wash my face, lotion, do my hair and my daughter’s and we go downstairs. Only then do I get on the computer. I don’t start writing until much later though (usually right around dinner time).

My morning ritual is getting up and going to my full time job. LOL

I get up at 6am, make tea for me and husband (which gets set to the side with lids on the teacups to keep it hot), sandwiches to take to work and breakfast, before spending 10-15 minutes websurfing as I munch. At 6.30 I take the tea (now just the right temp for drinking) and some milk for my daughter upstairs, get her out of bed and bring her into our bed for a morning story. Son joins us at 6.40 and snuggles through the story, then I get them into their school uniforms, get myself dressed for work and run out the door at 7am to go catch my 7.17 train. It’s all tightly scripted, I tell you.

Possibly it’s just as well I don’t aspire to write also!!

Ugh. Maybe after I see the doctor it might work. Right now it’s fall out of bed. Stagger into kitchen to take pills. Wait 1-2 hours for pills to kick in and pain to subside. Go back to bed.

Evening is the best time, by then I can be drugged up enough that I can think. Kind of.

I don’t drink coffee, but trust me one cup a day is completely reasonable compared to the seven my mother drinks.

Depends on the size of the cup. And how strong you make it. 1-2 isn’t too bad.

omg. are you in my head?

lol! if only! I can see a whole new trend in publishing — blog-lit. Books wherein the protag struggles to write a book while resisting the allure of blogging.

It seems better than Google at getting a mix of unrelated but relevant links onto the first page of hits. For example, “tempered glass” on Google gets nothing but glass-related links, while Bing gives me a link to tempered-glass.info as well. Similarly, “savitzky” gives me links for me, my nephew, Dad, and a bunch of people I don’t know.

It looks interesting. But I see no reason to switch, other than it being a new way to ‘ego search.’

Maybe if they let my change the font I’d switch

To me it looks very similar to Google, I personally can’t see any difference, it does have a nice image on the homepage though!

I do like the list of related links along the side of the page as they are in a convenient place, rather than at the bottom like on Google search.

I have never really been attracted to any search engines other than Google and so I don’t think i’ll be switching

I would say that their image section is bigger but the rest seems the same. I put my own name in the picture section but didn’t get one of the actual me. Google has one of me though…Yeah that’s important…to me at least!

I did the obvious and binged myself. The results were impressive.
I found out the probable reason I’m getting so much spam and that I got shortlisted in a short story competition a few years back.

it’s just Microsoft’s latest attempt at world domination by copying software from someone else.