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The suggestions here to reverse engineer your work hours based on the project you’re trying to accomplish are correct. You say you’re trying to write an article. I highly recommend Wendy Belcher’s book on how to do that: https://a.co/d/0hcjrTrt Beyond this specific goal, I’m going to take the unpopular position that you might need to look hard at the lack of motivation you feel. Im skeptical of people going from BA into graduate study without any work experience in between for exactly this reason. Graduate study is substantively different from undergrad for exactly this reason— you need to know how to work independently and entrepreneurially, and to keep doing your job when you feel unmotivated, unproductive, and underpaid. Depending on your level of skills and competencies, and the field you work in, you may need to work more than 40 hours/week. Every year I have students saying they went to become professors because “your job seems so chill.” This is an error. Being an academic is not really aligned with contemporary lifestyle goals, and if that’s why you chose this path, you might want to rethink it.