Night Pages Instead of Morning Pages

How writing at night can benefit all writers

Penny Zang
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readJan 17, 2022

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The debate among writers over being an early worm or a night owl has been the subject of many discussions. It is well-documented that successful writers such as Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, and Ernest Hemingway (among many others) all woke early to write. On the other hand, many writers stay up late and may benefit from the…

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English professor in SC and book nerd. Debut novel: Doll Parts, forthcoming from Sourcebooks, 2025.