Last night I stopped at a total word count of almost 8,000 words because I became too tired, so at 10:00 PM I went to sleep. Then my characters started nagging at me again around midnight, so after a 2-hr rest, I got up and worked on it some more from midnight to 3:00 AM and did the over 2000 words I have to do. Now I am reading and posting on AW because it motivates me to keep writing and I learn so much by reading. Ready to start a new session and reach 15,000 words before I go to sleep tonight.
ETA: I had three crazy dreams last night in those two hours.
1. I was flying on a small airplane, and when we were about to drop on the ground, the door opened and I bumped against this trash bin and knocked it over dumping all the trash to the ground. A police woman came up, picked up the trash, and when I turned facing forward, tried to hit me on the head with the trash bin, but missed. I stared at her and told her, "What the fuck?" And then I woke up.
2. A four-legged lady was coming toward me. And then I woke up.
3. Adam Lambert, his boyfriend Sauli Koskinen, who I named one of my MC's after in my series, and I were in a car. It was nighttime and the car was stuck in a ditch. Then Adam killed someone random, but I didn't see him kill him or her, and then we ran away. I remember asking Adam what we would do if someone got our license-plate number and he said, "Who's going to write my license-plate number down right now? Nothing's gonna happen. Stop bitching." And then we continued to ride until it was daytime and when we were crossing a bridge, I woke up.
And guess what? Those crazy ass dreams turned out to be my characters nagging at me. So I got up, wrote some more and when I went back to sleep, no more crazy dreams.