Writing in the morning
I write better before 9am than I do at any other time of day. I have known this since I was 22. I have, on average, taken advantage of it about one morning in five.
The other four mornings I check my phone, make coffee, check my phone again, open Slack, and by the time I’m at the page the part of my brain that writes is already distracted.
There is no trick. Either you put the phone in another room or you don’t.