WriteRoom, DarkRoom, JDarkRoom, or WrongRoom
Mark Pilgrim: WrongRoom “These programs ((Write|J?Dark)Room) aren’t for serious writers at all. They’re for the writer’s equivalent of script kiddies — people who want to go to Starbucks and pick up chicks with their MacBooks and their iPods and their glowing full-screen text editors.” Exactly what I thought when I first looked at WriteRoom. If you cannot write because there is way too much distraction — it is your own problem, and don’t blame the text editor! I seriously doubt changing to a plain vanilla full-screen text editor with absolutely no functionality at all would resolve your writer’s block.
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When something is “your own problem” you try to do something about it. For example – get a writeroom.
I suggest doing a mini research about ADHD before writing something so ignorant and arrogant. You should just be happy to be more fortunate than others because any given day the coin may flip and you gonna be a hypocrite.
“Momento mori”!
You shouldn’t be that arrogant and allow comments here.
But hey, that’s your problem! ;)
I didn’t know about any of those text editors, and now i’m using them.
I bet you have a nice looking wallpaper or theme in your computer. And I bet that isn’t for you to look at alone. I also bet you look at the mirror when you leave home, because you care about appearence.
Appearence matters weather it is on your face or on your computer.
I happen to like the looks of those text editors and i love the simplicity in writing with nothing to care about besides it.
P.S.: Try not to pass all that arrogance to your kid…
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Been the opposite for me. Best writing has come from when my screen is not blipping with email notifiers, twitters, other windows, etc.