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Brendan Spiegel's avatar

Love the candle thing!

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Rebecca Evans's avatar

This perspective is so helpful. I write in spurts. I'm disabled. I care for my adult disabled son. I relabeled the interruptions a few years ago and, instead, call them intersections, like pausing at a stoplight.

I also light a candle. A fig candle, which works like Pavlov's dog. Fig is now so specific, I'll start writing at first scent.

Thanks for this. I feel less alone.

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Ackerman Gwen's avatar

This has helped me feel validated I. That I can’t do that routine thing either and have felt like a loser although I progress and finish stories and novel in may own way I always feel like I am the odd man out. Thank you for this.

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Jesse Sposato's avatar

One thing I do that sometimes works is just keep a note open on my desktop with all the things I’m thinking about, that I *want to* to look up/start doing while writing and just save them for later rather than do them in the moment…

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