My friend RK sent me a Tim Ferris podcast on writing. (there’s some foul language in this podcast just FYI)
RK knew I was working on my book, and he’s working on publishing another book as well. Upon his recommendation, I gave it a quick listen and decided I wasn’t going to listen to it because it was to long. I’d just ask RK for the abridged version next time I saw him. But I had a bit of a drive to dinner recently so thanks to the aux cable, I listened to it in my car.
Tim Ferris was interviewing Neil Strauss who has written 7 New York Times Best Sellers and writes for Rolling Stone. I had never heard of him.
My take aways from the interview were:
Don’t get interrupted
It can take anywhere from 20-90 minutes for you to get back in the groove. They mentioned a book on writing that said you’ll distract yourself from doing the hard work of writing with cleaning tennis shoes. I’m guilty of that, since sitting down to write this blog post I’ve done a million other things from going to the bathroom, to checking facebook, responding to text messages, changing what I’m listening to, and even checking e-mail. Oops.
Have A Sacred Writing Space
Since they didn’t want to get interrupted they talked about having a sacred space. Having a place that is not interrupted and distraction free to write. We don’t have internet in our new home, and I think it’s helping with our overall productivity. Other than that maybe a coffee shop provides that space, which actually is pretty distraction free as long as you don’t know anyone and can turn facebook off.
The podcast also talked about the interviewing process which was good to hear about as well.
