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Violanthe
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PostDistraction

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:45 am
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What are the most dangerous sources of distraction for you when you're writing? What stops you from writing? What gets in the way? What lets you talk yourself out of writing?
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PostReal Life (TM)

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:19 pm
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When you catch the creative wave, all things are possible. Otherwise, 'frivolities' must be triaged in favour of Real Life (TM).

IMHO, biggest distraction is having to leave half-an-ear open for domestic exigencies. Unless you can time-share and scribble at odd moments, you're limited to oases of sanity, eg in small hours, while knowing that you're building a backlog of sleep deprivation that will diminish your long-term creativity...
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:49 am
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For me, the biggest distractions are other people. Whether it's someone in the house or calling on the phone. There isn't much I can do about the people in the house, aside from closing my bedroom door. Even then, if someone wants to call me, I usually have to answer, As for the telephone, I suppose I could turn the volume off. But then I get the "Where were you?" when I don't answer.

My biggest problem is that I get the urge to write when I'm at work. And, since I work on a computer, when I get home from work, the last thing I want to do is sit at the computer again. I usually get around this by just using the old-fashioned pen and paper to write down notes and ideas and then adding them to my WIP's on days I don't work
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:43 am
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Is it a cell phone? Can't you just text them to say, "Call you soon"?
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PostPerson from Porlock...

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:30 pm
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I actually put pen to paper yesterday for the first time this year, scribbled the opening of 'Glow'.

Then the phone rang.

Believe it or not, the caller was a Disney telemarketeer, cheerfully expounding the virtues of Orlando as a holiday destination.

( I'm in UK, have *never* evinced slightest interest in Disney, Florida, theme park vacations etc etc. FWIW, I'd be more interested in the Imagineering and support systems than the shop-front stuff....)

I could not even swear at him, as the spiel was a recording...

The exasperation broke my train of thought and 'Glow' guttered out...

D'uh...
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:13 pm
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See that's what I like about the cell phone... I don't have to get up from my writing desk to answer it.
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