Another year older, not necessarily better. I thought 2023 was one of my worst years for writing production, until I tried a mini-class in Rescue Time. I subscribed to the application in either late 2019 or early 2020, so I now have four years of data to examine. It is kind of nice to see that even when my writing hours take a dip, I’m still usually engaged in something useful such as pet care or housework.

It seems that 24% of my time is spent writing. Runners up for time consumption are reference and learning, business, and sleep. I’ve pushed myself to write in the morning, but it looks as if my best writing hours are between 2:00 pm and 11:00 pm. Upon consideration, those are the times when I would have (historically) returned home from school or from the day job. Now, I spend those early hours feeding pets, cleaning up after pets, gardening, cleaning house, or doing laundry. Not joyous occupations, but ones that make my writing hours more pleasant.