Digital Distractions Will Keep You from Writing

If you want to publish in magazines and/or with mainstream publishers, you have to do one thing first: write

But finding time and energy to write is really hard when there are just so many easy and accessible distractions.

Exhibit A: I sat down to write this post and proceeded to first do the following things:

Scrolled through news headlines on my phone; Chatted with my excellent friend Anita on Slack; Checked my email; Responded to a text from my excellent friend Danielle; Saw that a story about a unicorn puppy was trending on Google and immediat...