There are days when writing is easy. I'll start the day sitting on my sofa with a cup of coffee as usual and I will be raring to go, bouncing with the want to get up to my desk and open up that word document and hammer out some words, cramped fingers be damned.
Then there are days when writing is like pulling teeth. Every word feels like it's tortured out of me and whatever I do get down just ends up as a load of old rubbish destined to meet the editing scissors.
And then there are days when I do want to write, but everything else around me just seems so much more interesting!
It's called distraction! We all suffer from it, and I am suffering from it in a bad way at the moment...
It's called Football Fever... Thanks to the current Euro 2012 tournament I can't seem to keep my focus on my WIP for more than an hour or so at a time.
I sit at my desk in the morning, have a prat around on twitter, check my email, then write blogs, or do anything else I need to do. By the time I'm usually getting into my stride with writing, at around 11am, I'm distracted by checking the football news on the internet, or watching the highlights on the telly, or prating around on twitter again... anything but writing!
In fact I have been so swept up by this disease that I haven't even read a book in five days... That's almost unheard of for me.
So, I put this question out to the world...
What are your distractions, and how do you try to stop them interfering with writing?
Answers much appreciated, and if you find my missing attention span then please send it to me!
Xx
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