In a short article in the LA
Times, Carolyn Kellog shared a strategy used by writer Jeff VanderMeer to make
sure that he works on his novel rather than allowing himself to be distracted:
“…every morning my long-suffering yet often amused wife Ann hides the router box and my cellphone…” Then he gets down to work. He says, “Around 2:30 I call Ann on our landline and she tells me where the router box and the cellphone are (it has Internet access on it) so I can finish up the afternoon with necessary emails and other work, before going to the gym.”
Drastic but effective!
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