Leo at Freelance Switch offers some great advice for those struggling to write or fighting with the distraction of their too-connected existence. I’ve got my hand raised here. Knowing that it’s a problem I have to solve I thought I’d share Leo’s suggestions in case you can relate.
In the post, he focuses on creating a morning ritual and offers a variety of tips to help make the writing happen. The biggest challenge for me (and clearly how I found the post in the first place) is the temptation of falling into my RSS feeds. Staying away from email and RSS is a maxim that I have to force myself to stick to. I am totally in sync with his belief that the morning is the time to accomplish the writing task. I know that I flag by early afternoon and try as I may I just can’t crank it up. I’m going to give the preparation and minimization of distractions a try and see what happens. Make sure you check the comments on this post as well, there are a few nuggets in there as well.