Writers Asylum Forum keeping the groove

How does someone who gets distracted way too easily keep track in writing short stories and/or novels? How do I keep my groove?

Any suggestions?

well that is a hard question I have the same problem. First I would look at what it is that is distracting you , such as the TV , the computer, Xbox, etc. I know that those are my main distractions coupled with my mind racing and wanting to do all sorts of things at once.
Maybe you should try and set aside a time every day to write or at least every other day. even if all you do is write down , I dont know what to write. Force your self to get into to the habit of writing.
I learned some good techniques from " Anybody can write a playful approach" by Roberta Jean Bryant. Such as keeping what she calls an "Any thing goes journal" which is more than a writers journal , and more than a personal journal. I now put anything and everything in it.

Oh yeah , music always helps me , it isnt distracting and it help to keep me creative, its a mania thing

fall in love with writing

so you want to be a writer?
by Charles Bukowski

if it doesn't come bursting out of you

in spite of everything,

don't do it.

unless it comes unasked out of your

heart and your mind and your mouth

and your gut,

don't do it.

if you have to sit for hours

staring at your computer screen

or hunched over your

typewriter

searching for words,

don't do it.

if you're doing it for money or

fame,

don't do it.

if you're doing it because you want

women in your bed,

don't do it.

if you have to sit there and

rewrite it again and again,

don't do it.

if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,

don't do it.

if you're trying to write like somebody

else,

forget about it.





if you have to wait for it to roar out of

you,

then wait patiently.

if it never does roar out of you,

do something else.



if you first have to read it to your wife

or your girlfriend or your boyfriend

or your parents or to anybody at all,

you're not ready.



don't be like so many writers,

don't be like so many thousands of

people who call themselves writers,

don't be dull and boring and

pretentious, don't be consumed with self-

love.

the libraries of the world have

yawned themselves to

sleep

over your kind.

don't add to that.

don't do it.

unless it comes out of

your soul like a rocket,

unless being still would

drive you to madness or

suicide or murder,

don't do it.

unless the sun inside you is

burning your gut,

don't do it.



when it is truly time,

and if you have been chosen,

it will do it by

itself and it will keep on doing it

until you die or it dies in you.



there is no other way.



and there never was.