A.K. White asked Mark Cameron:

When are you most creative? Do you find the timing of your creativity changes or are you, for example, strictly a morning writer?

Mark Cameron Hi, and thanks for asking. My answer is quite complicated, because I generally think of myself being most creative at night, and yet I do most of my writing in the morning. In the past, as a software developer and as a musician, I have done most of my productive work in the late evening and early hours of the morning (typically 9pm - 3am). I always found those hours to provide an ideal combination of creativity and focus. But when I dove into writing seriously in 2012, family life prompted me to get up early to write ... and forego the late nights whenever possible. Writing has now become a discipline -- on writing days, I get up, go straight to the computer, and type until my creativity finds me. I don't "wait for the muse" or veer off from a day's plan to write when inspiration strikes me. Instead, I bank creative thoughts throughout the day, and occasionally open a manuscript to add a few notes as reminders for the next time I write. But in general, I write when I plan to write, and I trust the process.

So, to provide a brief summary of my long-winded reply ... I am basically a morning writer now, much to my own surprise!

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