William W.
Difficulty writing / writer's block? SOLVED!
If you have difficulty writing, whether it be finding time everyday, writer's block, or even, as was my case, just getting past the first couple pages, then you need to READ THIS -- it may literally change your life, as it did mine. I have so much to share with the world, but I simply cannot keep focused... I know that the root of this problem ultimately lies with me alone, so much so that I had even taken steps towards seeing a physician for prescription medications for ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), which was scheduled for this Friday morning (in 3-days). That appointment was happily CANCELLED yesterday -- I have every communication as evidence of this... Why? Because I found the cause of my "writer's block"; distraction -- even miniscule distractions. You see, I've tried MANY writing softwares, from free & open-source, to the "heavy hitter" commercial packages, ALL promising to "help authors write better & easier" -- however, every last one of them had something in common: Menus, options, styles, click here, click there, ALT-key this, and ALT-key that -- DISTRACTIONS! Then honestly JUST BY CHANCE I came across Inspire, which I'm on day 4 of using. Oh. My. God. Just before deciding to write this review, I just finished up my editing runthrough of my fourth chapter (I write each chapter, then run through again making edits, changes, et cetera) -- I've written everything from the prologue to the semi-final revision of chapter 4 -- IN 4-DAYS!!! I have never, since I decided to sit down and put my thoughts to paper, gotten past the first few paragraphs of a second chapter in ANY attempt to write a book -- EVER -- until now... The thing with the software is so much better because you never take your fingers off the same keys used for writing -- NO Alt-keys, CTRL-keys, CLICKS, etc -- everything is done with the letter/number keys, and formatting is SO MUCH SIMPLER, ex: just add # in front of a sentence for a header, the number of hashes matching which level header -- underscores surrounding text for italics, and so on... You NEVER take you fingers or focus off the keys used for writing, for no reason -- hence NO DISTRACTIONS...! I'd recommend this to EVERYONE -- especially those with writer's block, and similar focus issues -- try it before [unnecessarily] medicating yourself...!



