Comments on: Ways to Avoid Distraction While On Deadline http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/ A mutual support group for SF/F Novelists Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Willis http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3653 Willis Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:35:30 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3653 Distractions!! Those are my biggest thing. I always have some game or something on my computer distracting me from writing. These are all good ideas. I personally find coffee shops not so fun a place to go for writing, but that may be because I don't drink coffee. A library may be my best bet. Thanks for the list! Distractions!! Those are my biggest thing. I always have some game or something on my computer distracting me from writing.

These are all good ideas. I personally find coffee shops not so fun a place to go for writing, but that may be because I don’t drink coffee.

A library may be my best bet.

Thanks for the list!

]]> By: NJS http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3636 NJS Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:36:19 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3636 #2-4: good people watching can be distracting avoiding wireless internet: turn off wireless card on your computer so it won't pick up any networks. It's easy to reverse, but makes internet not immediately accessible. #2-4: good people watching can be distracting

avoiding wireless internet: turn off wireless card on your computer so it won’t pick up any networks. It’s easy to reverse, but makes internet not immediately accessible.

]]> By: Jenn http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3635 Jenn Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:30:01 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3635 #4 -- if your Internet provider is AT&T, you have free wireless access at Starbucks! (Wait.....you probably didn't need to know that....) Otherwise, excellent list! #4 — if your Internet provider is AT&T, you have free wireless access at Starbucks!

(Wait…..you probably didn’t need to know that….)

Otherwise, excellent list!

]]> By: Madeleine Robins http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3634 Madeleine Robins Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:47:27 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3634 #4 explains how I have managed to write as many books as I have; at my old Starbucks in NYC they had my grande drip with room ready when I walked in the door, and demanded a copy of the book I was writing when it came out.... #2: too much nature. Distracting. #3: too many toddlers running around on way to Kids' Section. OTOH, the no-cell rule is bliss. You are (as always) my hero. #4 explains how I have managed to write as many books as I have; at my old Starbucks in NYC they had my grande drip with room ready when I walked in the door, and demanded a copy of the book I was writing when it came out….

#2: too much nature. Distracting.

#3: too many toddlers running around on way to Kids’ Section. OTOH, the no-cell rule is bliss.

You are (as always) my hero.

]]> By: Diana Pharaoh Francis http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3633 Diana Pharaoh Francis Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:44:12 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3633 #2 made me snort drink. Bad bad you. And sooooooo right. #2 made me snort drink. Bad bad you. And sooooooo right.

]]> By: Merrilee Faber http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3632 Merrilee Faber Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:46:49 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3632 I may have to try some of those... I may have to try some of those…

]]> By: Tricia Sullivan http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3625 Tricia Sullivan Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:54:07 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/19/ways-to-avoid-distraction-while-on-deadline/#comment-3625 That number 6 is the killer. All of the others sound perfectly reasonable. That number 6 is the killer. All of the others sound perfectly reasonable.

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