{"id":2085,"date":"2014-11-11T22:16:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2022-05-30T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T07:42:09","slug":"clearing-space-for-thinking-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085","title":{"rendered":"Clearing space for thinking and writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Ppl who do lots of writing, how do you manage email flow? Testing only replying in timed bursts during a few periods\/day, save urgent stuff<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laurenellen McCann (@elle_mccann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elle_mccann\/status\/532219472111992832\">November 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here are some thoughts<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Switch off\/ log out\/ never use browser-based e-mail &#8211; the tabs are lurking to catch you<\/li>\n<li>Switch off notifications, disable e-mail polling etc on all mobile devices &#8211; phones and tablets. Set e-mail clients only to gather e-mail when you want (you are weak but will at least be in control)<\/li>\n<li>Set your main e-mail client (in my case on a Mac PowerBook gathering 11 mailboxes worth) to only collect e-mail once per hour &#8211; each hour use GTD techniques to respond to e-mail &#8211; if you can do it in less than 2 minutes then deal with it, if not schedule a time to deal with it. Get back to writing as soon as you can.<\/li>\n<li>Always have your phone on silent &#8211; when a call comes in &#8211; have a quick look &#8211; be ruthless and push it to voicemail. If it&#8217;s a client, friend or otherwise important &#8211; take the call; deal with it quickly. You will return to writing with more energy. Distinguish between the important and the urgent.<\/li>\n<li>For writing &#8211; use Scrivener &#8211; you can chunk up the work to allow for essential interruptions<\/li>\n<li>Go on long train journeys &#8211; buy cheap first class tickets in a quiet coach (often cheaper than standard if bought in advance) and write, write, write. They will bring you tea etc. This is good.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2085\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-2085\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2085\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ppl who do lots of writing, how do you manage email flow? Testing only replying in timed bursts during a few periods\/day, save urgent stuff \u2014 Laurenellen McCann (@elle_mccann) November 11, 2014 Here are some thoughts Switch off\/ log out\/ never use browser-based e-mail &#8211; the tabs are lurking to catch you Switch off &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clearing space for thinking and writing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2085\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-2085\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2085\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2085&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_typography_data":[],"_editorskit_blocks_typography":"","_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[30,29,65],"tags":[130,144],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0783.jpg?fit=2438%2C1450","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2WOwT-xD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digital-citizen.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}