Don't Multitasking

If there’s one thing that will screw you up hardcore and keep you from getting anything done, it’s multitasking.

• Taking a “quick break” while writing to check social media 
• Allowing notification banners on your desktop to pop while you’re writing
• Popping back and forth among a dozen browser tabs looking for the one that had that picture you wanted to use as your protagonist’s inspiration
• Googling “research” for your novel while you’re also in Scrivener trying to draft the scene
• Moving your cat’s tail from the keyboard… again