By Laurie Lazarro Knowlton
Except our
greatest nemesis and ultimate minute-to-minute interruption is self-inflicted.
We have become addicted with our insatiable desire to have our phone in hand.
Writing and phones are not a good combination for creativity.
9 Reasons Why you Need to Stay off
Your Phone to Write.
1. Turn off your phone when you sit down to write
so you are not interrupted with a phone call and lose your idea momentum.
2. Stay off your phone to research because it’s so
easy to slip over for a quick minute to check your e-mails. Next thing you know
an hour of your writing has gotten eaten up.
3. Taking time away from your phone can help you
experience calm mindfulness that allows your imagination to flow unencumbered.
4. Calling a friend to tell them about what you are
working on can make you lose your enthusiasm for the project, and even question
why you’re working on it in the first place.
5. It is good for your phone to get turned off
because it saves your battery; it keeps the phone from getting overheated and
allows for updates to be installed when you turned it on again.
6.
Handling your phone constantly becomes a habit. Don’t
reach for your phone when your writing mind gets stuck. Put your phone in
another room if you’re craving that quick bit of addictive phone stimulation.
Instead, sit with your story. Picture the conversation, the action, and your
brain will get back on track.
7.
Having your phone off and out of the room is
good for your body.
8.
Nighttime phone use is associated with poor
sleep.
9.
Staying off your phone helps relieve anxiety and
stress.
So put your phone far away and turned off. Put your bottom in the chair and get on with writing. Your story is calling your name. That is one call you need to answer.
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