15 Tips for Self-Employed Procrastinators
Walk the dog.
Pine forests are best for really long walks. The needles make a springy, well-drained soil which is easy on the joints and never too muddy.
Productivity
Audio distraction
They are the invention that has made aeroplane and train travel bearable
(screaming children? What screaming children?)
They are the gadget that means I can work on an article while my husband
plays Mad Max (PS4) in the same room (to whoever made the driving sound effects
for that game: I hate you deeply).
Q10 – Inexplicably good
Despite the age-related limitations, I’m genuinely enjoying this app. It’s very effective for focus, and just customisable enough to be enjoyable while not straying into “let’s spend three hours fiddling with the controls” territory.
I easily get this review typed out with barely any pause – and then use Q10 to write a couple of freelance pieces while I’m at it.
Writing with distraction
Pre-Internet, I imagine writers’ distraction came in the form of external surroundings: documents strewn on desks, friends calling by, potential sandwiches singing their siren songs.
To an extent, we are still susceptible to these tangents. I have never been so intimately interested in laundry as when I’m meant to be beginning an article in which I have little interest.
However, the vast majority of my distraction comes from the things I use to write: my phone and my computer.