1) short daily sessions (20m). short so you can always make it happen. daily so even short sessions compound into volume. Vgl [[Compound interest of habits 20200916065059]]

2) Stop unfinished , leaving an obvious point to pick up from again. I.e. [[Vastklik notes als ratchet zonder terugval 20220302102702]]

3) No research during the session, use TKTKTK

4) No rituals / prerequisites. This makes it harder to find and use 20 mins.

5) Use plain text editor because less distraction than wordprocessor 'helping' you by getting in your way. Just the words, everything else later. (Fun argument: all the coders who make word processors use only plain text editors themselves to get stuff done)

6) no comms / alerts

facit: be as minimalist as possible, so that circumstances don't matter. You, 20mins, plain text editor, ignoring all else.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220731081504/http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html

Doctorow on writing while avoiding distraction, 2009. What Rendle referenced wrt TKTKTK advice to avoid research during a writing session

Cory does not claim originality, just listing things he finds useful.

Use a specific marker to be able to later find the things that need completion / factoids added. US journalists use "TK" ("to come" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing) ) or "TKTK"

Rendle has used "TKTKTK" and it helps him a lot to keep writing momentum or to jot down half ideas / half remembered things to be researched and fixed later.

I recognise the distracting effect described. Now have added a keyboard shortcut (.tk) that will insert TKTKTK in a text.

Onderzoek/fact-checking <> schrijven When writing don't attempt to find/verify all details you want to mention. Searching for a factoid will distract from getting more text down. (Cory Doctorow 2009 post)

https://web.archive.org/web/20220904055255/https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/tktktk/

Robin Rendle repeating advice Cory Doctorow described 2009, and Rendle has been using as well.