The Greatness Of Do Not Disturb
The Little Icon With A Lot Of Power
We are thinkers, we are writers, but we need the tools to do these things. But sometimes these tools can also be distracting. Ding ding goes the phone, another notification to suck you away from what you are doing. Up pops a notification on the computer. Cooee, let me drag you away from your train of thought and what you are putting down in words. More and more notifications pop up. Don’t let them steal your soul. What Karen ate for supper tonight is not important and neither is Sharon’s new freezer that she picked up from Ebay at a knockdown price. None of this makes any difference to your life at all.
There’s a little button, that frankly would be quite nice in real life. Do not disturb. And I am now using it often. I’m also using headphones and gentle background music to help me focus on what I am writing down. Shutting the every day out and bringing the inner self in and then throwing it out again in words.
Having done a lot of reading around, these tools seem to be of great help in writing. Sometimes the hustle and bustle of life can be a massive hindrance to the flow of the words and for some of us Do Not Disturb can help us to produce some good work. Not all of us can write through distraction.
A writer is a craftsman. A Blacksmith is a craftsman and a writer is a Wordsmith minus a horse. Both need tools to help them produce. And neither can survive without those tools. For most people now in this digital age, the notebook may well be a thing of the past although some people still use them to jot things down. But the digital age has given us many apps and computer programmes to help us produce our best work. I’m glad I live in these times. God only knows how a certain Mr Charles Dickens managed. I don’t envy him at all. However, he was a most marvelous writer and one must wonder what he would think of these digital times if we could bring him back to write.
Laptops, phones, desktops. We as writers are lucky to live in the digital age because we always have the power of the DO NOT DISTURB button.
And for that, we should be grateful.
Be brave, and press it.
Clear your mind and write.
Vee