Okay, here I am with two days to go until the end of National Novel Editing Month (NaNoEdMo) and I’ve still got 6.5 hours to go! I’ve done nothing on several days during the last week due to feeling a bit under the weather, and then last night I came down with a cold!
So it’s […]
The Insomnia sleep disorder is an inability to sleep, or to sleep for long enough to get a proper night’s rest. It can have the effect of making you feel constantly tired. Lack of sleep can lead to poor concentration and coordination as well as irritability.
Secondary Insomnia has an underlying medical cause whereas Primary Insomnia […]
After dealing with cognitive issues, and obstacles to sleep (though a lot of it is the other side to encouraging sleep) you can then continue the behavioral therapy by addressing the following 3 main areas:
Sleep Environment - a comfortable bed, a bedroom that is quiet, dark and the right temperature
Sleep Discipline - use your […]
Ignoring medical and mental primary causes, which are outside my expertise…
Another way of putting the obstacles to sleep is by three main areas:
Sleep Environment - Is your bed too firm or lumpy and uncomfortable? Is the room too hot or too cold? Is it too light or too noisy?
Behaviour - if you have trouble sleeping, […]
The first thing to do when tackling insomnia is to remove the obstacles to sleep.
Caffeine and other chemical stimulants… They’re stimulants, what more do you need to know - if you want sleep, don’t take stimulants… (e.g. don’t drink coffee after lunchtime as a rough guide)
Mental stimulants… Watching exciting TV programs, reading real page-turner, can’t-put-down […]
This editing isn’t as much fun as the rough draft writing was! It’s been going slowly…
I started off with the idea of putting post-its on a wall and moving them around, but they kept falling off! So then I copied all that info into a spread sheet instead and shuffled the scenes that way, to […]
The Insomnia sleep disorder is also known as Wakefulness or Dysomnia and is an inability to sleep, or to sleep for long enough to get a proper night’s rest. It can have the effect of making you feel constantly tired.
Sleep is necessary to repair the body and provide mental and physical rest – to recharge […]
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I finished the first pass of editing - rereading the rough draft, making notes on scenes etc. (numbered post-its) and some proof reading highlighting. I also made some notes about new scenes to put in, which will add another thread to the storyline.
The next step is to reorganise the scenes to improve flow, clarity, readability […]
Well I started on 1st of March, but didn’t write it up because my broadband was down, Thanks Pipex! - I’m moving from Pipex internet to Pipex Homecall, evidently two different organisations - it took me over a week to get a migration code from Pipex internet, then Pipex Homecall don’t use it & I […]
