Before my brain fries any further, I felt it was time to start going on about how one can perfect this art. It might be useful to someone out there.

Writing is a lonely art. You touch people now and then, get some feedback, and sit in your own little corner of the world and wonder. This wondering can be of blissful places where rivers are of sapphires or of dark places of the soul where bats have taken up residence. Your writing, the more you sit on your butt and do it, will touch onto these extremes and everything in between.

But you can only reach this if you write. But this is hard. It can be among one of the hardest things that you will ever do. How does one turn off the internal editor, close out the people around you, and create people that emerge from the pages of your writing?

Resisting the temptation to spend a great deal of time to do anything BUT writing is difficult. (And I'm not doing such a good job of this today, to say the least.)

But even Stephen King has days where he doesn't type a word, I'd bet. (And if he doesn't, well, don't tell me, because I'll just cry, ok?)

Below, you will find a list of things that you can do to try to make certain that you can write without distraction:

- Turn off your Instant Messenger clients.
- Close your Browser.
- Unhook yourself from the Internet.
- Kick family and friends out of your room. They'll just annoy you and be in the way.
- Did I mention turn off your instant messengers and browsers?
- Theme music is a good thing. If you want a sad scene, put on sad music.

And on a quick tangent, let me mention something right now.

The rule "If you cry, your readers won't". It is bullshit. BULLSHIT. If you cannot feel when you write, your reader doesn't have a bloody chance of getting anything out of the scene.

But the same applies for joy. If you feel no joy when you write, the reader will pick up on that, and it will lack joy.

But, before you can worry about that, you need to write.