Lost in Time

It has become my practice to spend the first few weeks of creating a book to building a timeline. I have an Excel workbook for the Beyond The Bridge trilogy that contains not only timelines for all three books, but also all of the characters (this in itself is comprehensive), a discography for the recording artists, and one database dedicated to addresses, locations, etc. It is an historical fiction, after all, and I'm a stickler for air-tight research.

I've been working on the timeline for Book Three (With A Song), hoping that as I build it my characters will decided to come out and play with me again so that I can start writing. I got the first chapter written and then hit a wall. Of course, I've had just a few other things going on, so I haven't been able to do the things that help me get in the zone. The workload is starting to slow down a bit though, so maybe this will be the week that my characters come out of hiding.

What hasn't helped is that I've somehow ceased to be an insomniac. I'm never up later than 2am anymore, and my best writing has always happened from midnight to dawn. The day times are too busy with the every day to allow me to write, so I don't quite know what to do now. I'll never be a morning writer, so let's not even go there. I'm kind of hoping that when the words return, with them will come my usual weird hours. As much as I like getting my rest, I like writing more.

UPDATE - 3:51am:
Yay! I've been writing for the past four hours, and I'm just now getting sleepy. There's hope yet!