I’ve spent most of the past 15 years writing for my supper, and I’ve learned at least one thing in that time: When it’s time to write, concentration is critical. But in our distractastic online ...

The modern writer has an equally modern problem—there are too many notifications and digital distractions you receive each day, making it difficult to write. The average user gets 46 push ...

If you have an external keyboard for your iPad, you already have most of what you need for a solid distraction-free writing experience. The iPad’s windowless interface offers few background bobbles to ...

Being able to find a quiet place with your thoughts to write your latest novel, article or report is not as easy as it sometimes seems. Especially when you have a busy family life or need to carry out ...

There are plenty of distractions to deal with in our modern digital age—see if you can manage to get all the way through this article without turning your attention elsewhere at least once, for ...

TLDR: The Freewrite Traveler Portable Writing Tool is a handy digital writing tool for handling all the writing work you need done, but without the distractions of a laptop. The brain of a writer ...

Switching from Google Docs to Zettlr finally gave me control over drafts, versions, and long-form writing.

One of the first things that I tell my first-year writing students at the beginning of the semester is that writing is hard, and that anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. That might be a bit of an ...

All day long I write. Mostly, this writing is e-mails, but I write other things as well. Reports, lecture notes, presentations, letters of recommendation, grant proposals, comments, articles, chapters ...

riting on a computer is awful. Without discipline – in my case, at least – an effort to get out 1,000 words of non-fiction usually ends up consisting of thirty minutes of web browsing before writing, ...