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I LOVE this!! :D Congrats on your talents! It's inspiring!

You have created such a beautiful blog, so peaceful, comforting and magical. Your illustrations and words are so full of heart and honesty. Thank you for sharing your gifts and talents. I love popping in to visit:)

Thank you ladies! ^_^

E-mails can be insidious but I always make a point not to check work e-mails just before I go to bed, I've had too many sleepless nights as a result. I wondered about laptops too, marketed as devices of liberation but try working away from the desk for a while. The old lower back soon starts to grumble...

I still prefer the quiet of the night for my scribbling or drawing, wandering the streets with my dogs, finishing off work (it's a disease of teachers, too) or writing to relatives in other countries.

I love to write at night - always have. Silence and a slumbering cat for company. It's 1.43am and here I am still...

I vote for freedom, not tyranny. I love to be able to work at all hours and have never had a 9-5 job - I've always supported myself with a mish-mash of freelance stuff. I get up early to work, and I'm surprised how many editors will email back at 6am - so it works at both ends of the day :-)

It's marvellous to be able to do what you do when you want to do it. Learning to 'say no' to yourself can be a problem at any time, not just the middle of the night.

I once emailed an author after midnight on a Saturday, feeling vaguely ashamed, because he'd realise I have no 'fun' in my life, if I wasn't out getting drunk on a Saturday night. I had his reply an hour later, so he obviously also leads a very boring life, despite being a 'young man', and not a middle-aged witch.

Delighted that there are so many other night owls out there.

I agree Anne, wouldn't have it any other way and would hate to be tied down to a 'proper' job - if there is such a thing - it's one of the great joys of being self employed. But sometimes I wish I was disciplined enough to know when to stop and get some sleep!

Writing comes when it comes--regardless of conventional time constraints. If I have a restless midnight-or-later hour where my brain is boiling with ideas, I'll work then, though I'm not a night owl generally speaking. And my family--scattered about promiscuously over the entire globe--is always up whatever time I email.