I was feeling stuck with own writing
this week. I decided to try writing somewhere else. Where else would
a first time novelist write the next seminal American novel than
Starbucks? It felt so cliche but I couldn't think of a place that had
places to sit and plug a laptop in.
My discovery was that while there are
many distractions (the people, the drinks) that I am a better writer.
When at home, it becomes so easy to get up and do something. The
distractions you feel when trying to write can come from anything and
it won't really go away unless you stop and do something about it.
When writing somewhere else like Starbucks, the distractions tend to
disappear on their own.
It is however not always possible to go
somewhere else other than your home to write. My suggestion, and what
I plan to do, is to write things at home that take a little less
focus or intensity on your part and save the more difficult parts of
your writing until you can remove those personal distractions. I find
it much easier to get in the zone as it were when not at home.
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