Routine inspiration

Every morning for the last twenty years, I've been making a pot of coffee, then sitting down to write while the house is quiet. Some years - when I was a single mother of four working a full-time job outside the home - my day began at 430. My goal then was to write 500 new words every morning, when I was feeling most rested and creative. Some mornings I wrote more, but seldom ever less. On the way to work, I focused on the next chapter or section of the story, so that by the time I was at my desk, the new material had taken shape in my head. The first thing I always did at the start of every working day was to jot down the ideas I'd hatched in the car while crawling through my commute. At the end of every day, I spent a few minutes editing the material I'd written that morning. Weekends I edited and had a writing goal of a thousand words a day. It might not sound like much, but the words added up to a novel every year. Somehow I taught myself that if you sit at a blank screen long enough, the words will surely come. Now, with the move and all the other changes in my life, most of my routines have been totally buried in the hundreds of boxes I continue to work through. Except for this one...