Disruptions, from phone alerts to sick days, can derail our writing. Four authors talk about how they manage to (mostly) maintain the flow, with the help of timers, candles and compartmentalizing.
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.
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.
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…
Love the candle thing!
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.
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.
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…