Distraction free writing with writemonkey.com

Sometimes you don't need a fancy-pants 21st century computer.  Sometimes you really want something closer to a Commodor 64.  WriteMonkey.com can help you with that.  It's what Eric Griffith of PCMag calls "the best distraction-free, full-screen, "zen" text editor you'll find for free."  For Mac, the equivalent is WriteRoom.com.  Both tools are about limiting distractions (and the cognitive fatigue that comes with constantly choosing not to check your twitter feed -- or worse, the distraction of checking it anyway).  

We live in a distracting world full of 15 second bites of information.  But writing requires sustained attention of the sort that we rarely practice anymore.  And it requires frustration tolerance that we usually avoid practicing by distracting ourselves.  Notice the vicious circle there?  When you're working on developing and sustaining a writing habit, stack the deck in your favor by using a low-distraction tool like writemonkey.com.  Or, you know, paper and pencil.