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Distractions of many kinds can hinder a writer's creativity, and keeping those hindrances at bay can be a real challenge. Following are just six of the most commons distraction that may cause you, the writer, to be sidetracked from your writing.
Six Writing Distractions and How to Deal with Them:
1. There's people coming and going: Set your writing space away from traffic flow and away from noisy chatter. People's voices can be very distracting and so can people's footsteps coming and going.
2. Checking your email: Don't check your email until break time. You may feel the tendency to check your email since you're on your computer already, this could zap you of your creative writing juices by feeling compelled to answer those emails.
3. Hearing messages being left on your answering machine or voice mail: Set your ringer and voice mail on silent. Let your voice mail take your messages this way you won't feel the need to pick up that phone when you hear the person leaving the message.
4. The scheduled writing time isn't working: Adjust your schedule and make note of which times you are at your writing peak. Getting up early before others may avoid that bad feeling that you are neglecting or ignoring your loved ones. Experiment with different times.
5. Dealing with feeling guilty: Those feelings of guilt because you're not answering the phone or not returning those calls right away can take their toll on your writing goal. Take your work to the library, the park, or even a coffee house.
6. The growling stomach: Eat breakfast or lunch before sitting down to write, but try not to overeat at lunch time or you may get sleepy. Eating before a writing assignment will help keep you in one place and stop you from running to the kitchen to pacify that growling stomach.
Dealing with these six distractions before they become a hindrance to your writing may take a bit of effort on your part, but in the long run you will gain productivity time. It is to your advantage to avoid being sidetracked so you may write with ease, which is what any writer would love to do.
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