Napping.<\/h1>\n

When I need a nap, any place will do.\u00a0I can lie down on a bench, office floor, tilted-back car seat, couch, or even under a bush, and doze off for a half-hour, regardless of background noise or distractions.<\/p>\n

Napping is one of my most valuable writing tools\u2014right up there with laptops, pens, pads, scraps of paper with indecipherable scrawls, backs of envelopes,\u00a0walks in the woods, bike rides, toothpicks,\u00a0Wikipedia\u00a0<\/em>(yeah, I confess), tea, coffee, wine, and a little Adderall when nothing else works or, well, if truth be told, I just feel like it.<\/p>\n

With a nap, you get two days of writing in one. After 30 minutes or so, you wake up, stagger around just like you did that morning, make a cup of tea, and stare blankly out the window. Inevitably, if you\u2019re patient, ideas will start floating up from your subconscious\u2026which has been trying to get your attention all day.<\/p>\n

Then, all you have to do is open your laptop and\u2014here\u2019s the hardest part\u2014write those rough phrases and sentences down\u00a0before<\/em>\u00a0checking the weather, e-mail,\u00a0Facebook<\/em>,\u00a0Instagram, CNN<\/em>, or indulge in any of a number of random activities that could easily wait until later.<\/p>\n

If you do get distracted it\u2019s no big deal. Self-flagellation is the biggest distraction of all.<\/p>\n

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