Queue my long history with WFNB: from 1999 to 2014 I was (though not always but sometimes concurrently) a board member, newsletter editor, webmaster, five-year “interim” executive director and unofficial photographer. My story was called “Anna” and (something I also recall) it was the first time I wrote without quotation marks for dialogue. John’s author Paul Bowdring, and that Miramichi author (former author?) Larry Lynch took first prize. I do remember that the judge in the short fiction category was St. I’m not sure what year it was – perhaps 1998 – but my first acknowledgement from the writing world came when I was awarded a 2nd prize in the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick’s Literary Competition. Stay safe everyone, grow herbs in your window and watch the (non-corvid) starlings search the peeps of grass for signs of spring while snow falls softly around their feathered…
Meanwhile, “Corvid-19” is nothing to crow about and brings up nearly two million hits, several articles in respectable web-roosts, but typo or no (see here for an example from the Read Dear Advocate) it’s hardly murderous error and no pandemonium has ensued.Īnd what’s a writer/editor to do in this viral hunkerdown but work on while others work on their works in progress. And though I may harbour a few ADD dinghies myself, the reason why I called my blog Indistractable was because it was just a neat word I hoped I’d coined and I’m not, I’m very. But now there’s a book entitled Indistractable, which would explain a surge of random (not fandom) hits the past year here. That was unlikely anyway – nothing much is truly new under planet Neologism’s sun. I considered delaying the episode but in the end I decided that the topics we cover – distraction, getting stuff done, being a present & engaged parent and dealing with our own negative emotions – are probably more relevant to many of us than ever, right now.So, here’s past guest Nir Eyal answering listener questions about distraction and focus, and how we can have more choice over how we direct those things.See, when I first started this blog in early 2014 the word “indistractable” brought up only a few Google hits, assuring me of its relative originality but disabusing me of any true clams on the word (“get your clams off me!”).
This episode was recorded a couple of weeks ago now – which feels like a lifetime ago in the post COVID19 world.
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