Writing Distractions

I am planning to do a cleanup on my saved articles.

See, back in the day (don't think it is too long ago it was roughly just "a year ago), if I find something worth re-reading, going back to, referencing or writing about the same subject, I click the bookmark in their read articles. So most of the articles that were brought up from questions prompts, contests and those that I was tagged in as well are all there. But boy do they pile up. I am clutter magnet so even in that area, there is clutter there.

Reviewing articles that caught my attention does give you good idea of what to write. The most recent one that I bookmarked was @LeonaReed activity review. I was thinking I will pick some ideas from her articles, too. I started with the sleep questions. Then midway, I also thought of the Random Words. I remember I had fun doing fiction with those words. So I stopped my sleep article midway. Clicked on "Save Draft" and was about to go to the random words site.

But I stopped. I thought of googling something else.

In that scenario alone, I encountered two major distractions that I always encounter and might have a more or less 80% contribution as to why I do not write sometimes.

• overthinking | I want this and that in there.. and this, too and that, too!

  I have a tendency to overthink about what to write. I'd get excited and then think of how its flow is going to be and my ending is that I'd stop abruptly. Save the draft. And go do something else instead. I sometimes forget my self-prodding, self-pumping game chant : "Keep typing!"

  

  

• second-guessing | will i make it past 3 minutes.. will my brain spill be enough?

  Getting comfortable with simply typing away is not always my ordinary day. There is that part of me that second-guesses if I can fill up the entire "Write" box with at least a 3-minute read.

• image surfing | I can write about this.. oh this too!

  We are familiar with a picture paints a thousand words. And yes they do paint a lot of stories in my head. When stories pile up, my brain freezes with day dreaming rather than typing everything down. Until I'm no longer in the mood to share my thoughts at all. This also happens when I am looking for appropriate lead image. Haha. I have learned and saw that sometimes these images need not to really be related to the article.

  

  

  These are just three. I was going to put in hesitation as well but then I got distracted with the very last thing in this list : image surfing. It was not the first during this time that I was writing. Switching tabs and doing multiple things while writing is distraction-trigger.

I just got distracted with Google Timeline again and that would be good for another article. I searched a random image in my hard drive and that brought out alot of stories in my head.

We have talked about why and how we write.

Let's talk about the things that pull us away from our writing workflow.. .

Let me know yours!

What is your story?

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