If you feel scattered and find it difficult to focus your attention on your writing, you’re not alone, not weird, not wrong. You’re probably suffering from mental clutter. Your brain is filled with too many things to think about, remember, ponder, take action on. You’re struggling to make sense of a cacophony of demands on […]
Tag Archives: choose what you pay attention to
Two Ways through Writer’s Block
When you’re stuck or notice that you’re resisting your writing time, you have two alternatives: pay attention or daydream. Which should you choose? Depends on what you’ve been doing lately. We have two different attentional states: focused attention, officially called the Central Executive mode, and daydreaming or the Mind-Wandering Mode. (more about two attentional states […]
Mental Clutter
The inability to sustain focused attention for more than five minutes is often the result of mental clutter.
Contact Rosanne
rosanne@rosannebane.com
Bane of Your Resistance 