#2 Night Thoughts

Why is that every time I lie down, ready for sleep, my mind wakes up and I start to think?  No matter how tired I was my mind insists that now I am in bed it is time for working things out, creating lists and coming up with ideas.  I guess  I should be mad that I didn't get to sleep til after 2am last night, especially considering how exhausted I was as I collapsed into bed.  But then came an idea.  Ideas don't come to me easily, normally I have to hunt them down, but last night, not only did I come up with an entire idea for a short story but wrote down the first paragraph (I knew if I didn't it would bug me all night).  If my body hadn't been so knackered I'm pretty sure I could have written a full first draft then and there.  As it is I forced myself to try and go back to sleep (at which point I worked out how I could have won the game of chess I'd played earlier in the day instead of simply getting to stalemate (considering I only had 3 pieces for a majority of the time, that isn't half bad actually, but winning is always better).  So now I am tired but so motivated, I need to finish my uni work (or at least some of it) before I will let myself indulge in the new story and it's really working to get me working :)