Do you hanker for distraction-free writing but still need text you can edit or submit later? Clive Brooks guides you through the hardware and software options
There’s a text to answer, a long list of tweets to read and you’re trying to keep up with what fifty or so people are up to on Facebook, because for some inexplicable reason that you genuinely can’t quite fathom any more, you feel that you really ought to. Your computer bleeps, bings, bloops and flashes stuff at you endlessly, and through all this nonsense, you’re trying to settle down quietly to write a first draft of that novel or magazine article.