WRITER INTERUPTUS

If you’re a writer

There’s a condition that only writers get

Every writer! 

No matter where you live

No matter who you are

Every writer gets this condition

Including me. 

For years I’ve tried to get rid of it

But no luck

It’s called

WRITER INTERUPTUS.

I know you know what I’m talking about

You sit down to write when:

The phone rings, your pet wants to eat or needs to go out,

You have errands to do, another episode of Netlix beckons, taking a nap sounds like heaven, your stomach growls, you're staving, (there’s only so many bowls of cereal one can eat), 

your mind can’t stay focused, you need to pay some bills, your family needs you, etc., etc., etc.

So for years,

I kept getting up earlier and earlier 

Now I’m up at 4:30 a.m. 

But even then I get

WRITER INTERUPTUS

I read once that J.K. Rowlings would go to the Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh to write

I soooo get that

Because when you're at a hotel, and you have the will power 

To turn off your phone and not turn on the TV

There'll be no

WRITER INTERUPTUS

Only room service.

So?

Do you suffer from WRITER INTERUPTUS?

What interrupts you?

And what's your cure?

 

Always,

Em-Musing