I heart Dark Room
I began using Dark Room this morning and I am converted. I’ve always been lacking a bit in the attention span department, which you might know if you’ve ever had a real live conversation with me. I switch subjects faster than a race car driver switches lanes. Writing had become the chore of trying to ignore my sms, my roommate, my email (3 accounts), gtalk, aim, facebook, flickr, tumblr, myspace, google reader and manage my musical selections. While its logically simple to close out of these programs one look at the little firefox icon at the corner of my screen and I’m sucked right back into the vortex of internet hell. I think to myself, I’ll just quickly check my email. Suddenly an hour has been wasted looking at only God knows what and before I know it the entire morning, afternoon, evening is missing. Nothing has been written.
Dark room is created to solve the problem of distraction. Its a full blacked out screen. Surprisingly effective. Just you and the words. (The original program Write Room was developed for macs)
The above is what I’ve completed in the past twenty minutes or so. I’m excited. I’ve got a soundtrack and a little forward momentum.
Happy Saturday.
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