Be kind to your creativity. Allow it to flourish when it flourishes best.
So if you are a rooster. Get up and crow.
And if you are a coyote. Prance around all night.
If you don’t know what your best times are, touch base with yourself.
Ask yourself, what times of day are you most productive?
Then again, maybe your creativity doesn’t care about time.
Maybe you are able to create whatever you want whenever you want.
That’s pretty rare, in my experience. However, my husband is able to create wherever and whenever. His creativity doesn’t care what time it is.
I am a wee bit more sensitive. I like the calm, cool expanses of early mornings, undisturbed.
I’m kinda fussy. My husband is much more easy-going. (But I’m a lot less fussy first thing in the morning after everybody leaves me be for a few uninterrupted hours.)
What’s the truth about your timing? What does it need?
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I, too, love the early morning hours. The challenge is getting some writing time before the school day starts and the baby takes a nap! My brain is buzzing with ideas before I even get out of bed. Since I don’t have lots of opportunity to write at that time, I sit down and capture my flow of consciousness with some fast writing so I don’t lose the ideas and can attack them again later (or let the ideas attack me!)
I am more creative first thing in the morning, or right before I fall asleep — right before, and right after the day has filled up my head. I have young children and I homeschool, though, so I’ve “trained” myself to work in the afternoons instead. For the most part, it works. It is a quiet, uninterrupted period and it’s become such a habit, that I do get a lot done, even though it’s not my “natural” creative time.