10 Easy Ways To Improve Your Focus Right Now
Feeling scattered, writer friends? Here are tips you can use today!
If there’s one thing we’ve learned so far during this COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that none of us is immune. We’re also not immune to worry, anxiety, and the exacerbating of other mental health disorders, which, for many of us, is leading to an utter lack of focus when it comes to our writing projects.
Stuck at home, it’s easy to get sucked into checking every virus update, news story, and constantly checking in with friends and family via phone, text, or group chats.
Is it possible to work on our writing during this challenging time? It is, with some discipline. If you simply cannot, I’ve got some alternatives to help your creative life along.
- Netflix and Chill
When I was writing my fourth book, Broken Places, exploring grief and relationships, my editor at the time suggested I take a break and watch Beyoncé’s Lemonade movie. I did, of course, along with the rest of the world, bulldozed by her talent and guts.
Why did my editor want me to watch this? She said, “Watch this as a viewer once. Let it flow over you. Then re-watch it as a writer.”
And this is the lesson I want to share with you today: watch well-written shows on Netflix (or Amazon Prime or…
