Routines are incredibly important. The more you write, the more your writing brain wants to create… more and more and more. I live the proof of this. Early on this month I was putting a lot of time and energy into preparing for a vacation; making lists of what to pack and what to buy, shopping, what I could not forget, prescriptions that needed to be picked up, instructions for the husband left behind about what and how much and how often to feed the animals.