1. Try to invoke a feeling or spirit of writing very late at night after everyone has gone to sleep.

2. Freewrite by candlelight in a very quiet and secluded place.

• perhaps one can even enhance the effect by listening to Chopin's (or anyone else's) nocturnes, Stephen Micus's "To The Evening Child" or any other somber/meditative music.

3. Allow for the spirit of this moment that you have created to overtake the piece you are writing.