Writing Despite Distraction

Finding Silence And Finding Gold

Working a job, caring, looking after little people can all be enjoyable things but when you’re trying to write very distracting. There is always someone, somewhere, wanting something. Of. You.

How to get round it you ask yourself. The way I’m getting round it is shutting my mind to what is going on around me. Zoning them all out and finding my own space, a quiet space in my mind where the words can spill out onto the keyboard and then miraculously onto the screen. Having said that I might zone them all back in again very rapidly if The Husband was to set the kitchen on fire.

And once you start writing don’t stop if you don’t have to. Stay in the zone of writing. Don’t leave it or the dreaded distraction or procrastination will creep in and you’ll never get to your destination, a finished article. A little chat here and there, poking around on Facebook and Tweeting does not a writer make. Sitting down and writing every day does. The Do Not Disturb button is a godsend.

Wanting silence in your mind is not a selfish act. For me it is self care and enables me to write. It also enables me to mull things over and reach calm decisions. How can anybody the hell make a decision when everyone is talking at once? Loudly like a chattering ongoing din. I liken it to the toe-curling noise of metal scraping against metal. God I wish everyone would just shut up.

Silence really is golden and can be moulded into words. Your words and your writing and for me it’s been the best therapy I could ever have. I’m talking to my keyboard through my fingers and like all brilliant therapists, it’s listening and helping me to let it all out. And it doesn’t need a sandwich or a drink, only the occasional battery change to keep it going. Another bonus is that it doesn’t interrupt and butt in.

So I’ll just carry on searching for silence and letting thoughts all out through my keyboard.

Because thoughts can turn into words and words can bring power and change.

And peace.