Writing attention flagging mid-afternoon? Kiss that sleepy afternoon slump goodbye with advice from Rosalind Moody
No scientific study names the afternoon writer the most productive one of the day. That crown is usually awarded to the one with reams of morning pages under their belt by 9am, that self-righteous member of the 5am alarm club. Sometimes it’s given to the ones completing their best work before bedtime, even if it’s going on 3am, because some would agree a whole night’s sleep is the best reward of all.
Whichever writer you are, the feeling of mid-afternoon sleepiness even gets an official name. It’s acedia we all have to blame – that’s what early Christian monks haunted by the same unwelcome 3pm feeling back in 300AD called it.