The topic above may not seem as though it relates to writing but, bear with me.

In the last few years I've noticed more our society's fixation with time and breaking it down into the smallest increments, almost at though if we do so, we can somehow control it. This is a construct which we've made about time though, and is not what time actually is. The whole idea of plowing through projects in order to meet deadlines, or to be somewhere "on time" or to have a schedule is something that western society created. Indigenous cultures, Native American, Native Hawaiian and so on don't traditionally live by clock time, one simply does what needs to be done rather than rushing through it in order to complete it by a particular clock time.

As a writer this idea intrigues me, and being Native American myself even more so. Since I haven't been working in a traditional 8-5 job recently I didn't really realize until I no longer was doing so how tied I had become to clock time. So much so, that I find myself trying to tie my writing projects to it. I'm going to test a theory of mine, in that I'm going cover up all my clocks during the day and just sleep when I sleep, wake up when I wake, and simply do that which I want to do during the day without tying what I do to clock time. My theory is that if I do so, I may actually find myself being more creative and getting more done because there isn't this rush to complete things by a particular time.  I'll let you all know how it goes.