Comments on: 6 Essential Tips For Distraction Free Blogging

By: Beginners Blogging Tips for Fossilized Clams

Beginners Blogging Tips for Fossilized Clams — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:05:32 +0000

[...] 6 Essential Tips For Distraction Free Blogging [...]

By: Baldness

Baldness — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:24:09 +0000

I totally agree with you. Things that distract should be kept at bay while working. Once the concentration is lost it gets very difficult to start all over again and work.

By: Thomas Sinfield

Thomas Sinfield — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:45:49 +0000

I find that when I start writing I will write until I stop. But this is because I write for the love of writing. But I do need to work on this for my other internet projects – because I get way to disctracted!

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:43:59 +0000

Scott, you are welcome.

Caroline, I used to have Gmail open in a separate tab, but as you said, it was distracting as I kept looking at the tab to see if there were any new emails. Now I check my emails with Outlook only when I am free. It saves me a lot of time.

Wayne, writing offline is a great idea. However, it has a downside. What do you do if, during writing, you have to look something up on the web? Also, I find it hard to stay offline for more than 5 minutes (when I am in front of computer).

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:06:57 +0000

Writing the articles offline and applying all the tips above will be the best.

One of my biggest distraction when writing a post is that when I am writing, I tend to bloghop concurrently. When I saw a catchy title, I tend to stop writing and read it.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:37:10 +0000

I used to have a bunch of tabs open all the time in my browser and that included my email. The name of the tab changes when I get a new email come in so I see something like Inbox (1) which makes me want to go check it out straight away. I now get a lot more email than I used to so I shut off email before blogging or settling down to any serious work.

By: chipseo

chipseo — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:20:42 +0000

thanks for the points, I always find I can write much better without being distracted. Scott

By: Mohsin

Mohsin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:57:41 +0000

Steven, exactly. The ‘zzz’ feeling doesn’t get into your way in the early part of the day.

Pelf, Oh my, the same problem here.. I get back to the unfinished projects only when for some reason I can not connect to the internet. There are just too many distractions online.

I’ve been trying to keep my desk clean, though as you said, it’s kinda hard to start with, because books and stuff slowly pile up. But if I try hard enough, I’ll hopefully develop a distaste for desk clutter.

By: pelf

pelf — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:25:43 +0000

My biggest distractions would be the Internet connection! LOL. I am most productive (in terms of writing blog posts) when I’m disconnected because otherwise, I would stray into reading feeds and online news and visit pages that friends have stumbled, you get the flow..

I can’t concentrate with the background music as well, but I’m too messy a person to keep my desk clean for a week. I may clear the books and papers away but within a week, things get piled up again, LOL.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:09:24 +0000

Good points. It also helps me to work at times of the day when I’m able to focus the best.