Writers Don't Surf!
Writers are faced with seemingly innumerable distractions, life stuff that comes between the ideas blowing across the barren wasteland of our minds and the words that somehow magically appear on our computer screens. But the single greatest impediment to this successful thought transfer is the Internet. This is a documented fact. I know because I just documented it. And it may even be true (though that’s not likely). In fact, my dear friend [1] Chuck Wendig even included Freedom Internet Blocking Productivity Software as NUMBER ONE on his “ Ten More Gifts for Writers (2013 Edition) .” Some blame Al Gore. Others blame Bill Jobs or Steve Gates or one of those other computer-box dudes. Personally, I blame Bush. Vannevar Bush . But that’s another story for another time. Photo credit: MIT Technology Review The point is that the Internet gets in the way of writing. So I’ve come up with a solution. Mind you, this is...