How a Hybrid Workflow Rocked My Writing World

Maybe it can work for you, too!

The Siren call is real… Photo by Samantha Borges on Unsplash

My life was being destroyed by blue light, endless scrolling, and rabbit holes filled with nonsense generated to sell rather than with interesting or useful oeuvres. Even worse, they were taking away my ability to write.

Each day, I’d open up my laptop excitedly, ready to let all those ideas filling my brain out onto the screen. It would start well enough. I would type a few sentences, maybe even a paragraph or three. Then it would happen.

I’d need to verify a fact or some other little piece of information.

Still hopeful that there was writing to be done, I’d click the little icon on my taskbar. Up would pop the browser window, inviting me to type in my research query. Then, some little addicted part of my brain would whisper, “Check your email, Reddit, Pinterest… click on anything but the writing before you.”

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