TODAY’S QUOTE
“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet.”
MY THOUGHTS
Today’s quote reminds me of one of my father’s favourite quotes :
” Genius is 1 % inspiration, and 99 % perspiration.”
Maybe today’s quote is an updated version of this older one. Genius or inspiration has been upgraded to 3 %. You can equate ‘staying off the Internet’ with hard work.
Arguably, writers need to research and these days that involves the Internet. However, it is so easy to fall down rabbit holes like Instagram or other social media. Before you know it, precious writing time is over.
My daughter has set a 15 minute timer on her Instagram. I think it would be a good idea if I did the same.
Salted Caramel 
Oh absolutely! I’ve got about three stories going, and I haven’t worked on any of them since COVID. Even though, I clearly had a lot to of time to do it with.
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Join the club.
I’ve had a WIP going since 2020 and have still not gotten even halfway 🙃
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I wonder what we can do to “get in the mood”
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I’m caught up in a lot of family stuff which is very important but is not letting me get on with my writing even when I have the time.
I sometimes wish I could go on a week’s holiday somewhere quiet and picturesque. I would spend my time writing and would go for walks when I got tired.
Wishes…….
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That sounds lovely, hopefully the wish comes true soon!
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If only ……
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With the shear and overwhelming amount of information(good, bad and useless) instantaneously available to anyone with an internet connection….distraction is sure to follow.
How easy is it as you say to “fall down the rabbit hole” on some social media platform and then “wake up” and wonder where the past hour or more has gone.
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Good to hear from you Glen. Hope you and Lynn are doing fine.
Sorry for not visiting your blog in a long while. I’ve been caught up in a lot of stuff for the past two years. It’s an effort just keeping my own blog going.
Thank you for reading and commenting.
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Thanks Tanya. Not sure if you knew, but we moved from Ontario to Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada back in July. I’m sort of semi-retired. But, the move does put us within 2 hours now of our daughter, versus a full week of holidays it took before.
With more time availanle now, I find it easier to keep on top(kind of) of my section of the blogging world.
Hope you are well. I’ll stop in more often now.
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Thank Glenn.
I’m so glad you are much nearer your daughter now.
Does your new home have picturesque walks around it , like the old one. I mean, for your nature walks etc.
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Thanks Tanya…and yes this area is perfect for getting outdoors and hiking and such. We live in an area that has the highest tides in the world. A 5 or 7 minute walk to the end of our road puts us right at the ocean. So, just about anyplace you can access the ocean at low tide, provides a great opportunity to walk along the ocean floor. And yes, being now only 2 hours by car from our daughter is wonderful.
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That is great.
So Just A Bit Further will have more picturesque shots.
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Certainly hope so. I’ll see wat Lynn might have taken already.
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Here you go Dr T
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/11/21/blogging-insights-nf-61-distraction/
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Yes the internet is responsible for a lot of procrastination.
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It is indeed!
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Thank you Di.
What about Share Your World?
Are you going to continue it ?
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I’ve taken it over Dr T and posts are going out on Mondays as usual. I’m also doing the Truthful Tuesday until Frank aka PVGuyIV wants it back. I think it’s what Melanie may have wanted and so far everyone seems in accord with that.
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It’s really good to hear that ☺️
It’s very nice of you to fill in for friends. 😍
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It’s my pleasure. I considered Melanie a friend.
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I did too. She used to encourage me over every prompt I created.
May she rest in peace.
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Amen to that.
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💐
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This has been interesting and it made me think, although frankly I think I’ve been doing WAY too much thinking and I should stop thinking. Just give it up. Maybe I’d feel better.
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” Sometimes I sits and thinks,
And sometimes I just sits”.
I’m interested in reading what you’ve been thinking 🤔
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Me too. That is the thing about writing for me. I often don’t know what I’m thinking until I start writing. Weird, isn’t it?
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Weird, yes, but in a fun way.
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Just to be contrary, sometimes a bit of procrastination is useful, and internet rabbit holes offer new ideas. My writing over the summer was patchy because of other commitments, and I though that the WIP was bogged down because of that. As I now realise, it was stuck because it had hit a problem and once I got back in to it a month or two back I spent a lot of time losing myself elsewhere whilst failing to get back on track, but all that procrastination brought me round to a solution that I might not otherwise have thought of.
(On the flip side, one advantage of the summer for writing is that I tend to work outside, too far from the house for the laptop to connect to the wifi.)
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Your views , being the other side of the coin, are very pertinent.
Like you,
I have often found ideas and inspiration from the Internet .
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