Writing rant: To each their own, but I genuinely don't understand how people can write in coffee shops.
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To be blunt, most of the best writers I knew have a quiet, interruption free space. I literally put my phone in the other room. I never have any notifications on all my shit. No nothing. Just quiet so I can fall into a deep zoom space.
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And when it's not catching or I get stuck? That's okay cause it's when *I* need to get away from it, I can can do that. I can check my phone, I can go fuck about on twitter. But Im the one who controls it.
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So: Coffee shops are like walking into the den of non-stop interruption. I can think of nothing more harmful. But as a friend once joked, "People need to be in public otherwise they'd just masturbate all day." Which is funny, but ultimately irrelevant.
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Again, to each their own. But I just genuinely recommend that writers work at the discipline of being comfortable in the quiet space thing. You may be shocked at the productivity that comes from it?
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Or maybe it just comes down to the terror of being alone with our own thoughts... END RANT <3
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Last add: This wasn't something natural to me. It was advised to me by someone else. I had to work at it over time, but now I couldn't imagine anything else. (it's also cheaper).
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David Ward wrote The Sting at LAX. He said the airport was one of his favorite places to write. He liked the noise and all people watching. He wrote a classic and won an Oscar for it. So you’re right... to each his own.
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Do you often find at coffee shops that people come up and distract you? I live at home so I'm at least 90% more likely for that to happen at home than around strangers when I have headphones in.
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Some people respond different to the environment, I used to get in the "zone" with music, but with time I've noticed I need silence.
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Writing code is like that too. Which is why cubicles farms for software developer was one if the worse ideas ever.
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Sometimes a cafe or bar can achieve a good http://bit.ly/2EhUGRQ style white noise that's easy to ignore in your consciousness. Last year I found that I can actually write in airport bars--well at least once.
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