These are not in any particular order...- The dog begging for my attention. He's too cute to ignore.
- Cold coffee...which means I have to get up from writing and walk downstairs to microwave it.
- Someone calls me on the cell. Granted, I don't have to answer it but I'm soooo tempted, thinking it will be a literary agent raving about my book proposal or Rick Springfield inviting me to have coffee with him in Malibu.
- Reading Rick's Tweets :)
- Seeing that my dog dug a hole in the backyard to escape under the fence
- Craving chocolate chip cookies
- Needing to floss my teeth. Weird, I know, but true.
- Getting stuck on a sentence...which leads to a google search and then clicking on one website after another until I forget what I was searching for in the first place.
- Needing to wash clothes or fix dinner.
- My butt gets sore from sitting down so long and I want to get up and walk around.
What distracts you from writing?
3 comments:
I have a lot of the same ones - my biggest distraction is people - I love them, but they are always asking me things!
sandie
Everything! Because I search for distractions.
For instance, right now, writing a comment on your blog, is a distraction from my working on my column, which is due tomorrow.
I just don't want to get started, not yet, not until I wear out all my creative juices putzing around on other people's blogs so that by the time I get to writing my column, I've got nothing left in my brain but letters and punctuation marks - my inspiration having, as Bukowski might say, run away like wild horses over the hills.
Ed, I hope you find inspiration on my blog!!! ;) Do you ever take requests for your column? Meaning may I suggest a topic for you to write about? How fun could that be!!!???? Thanks for stopping by.....
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