Is Silence Golden For Writers?

Graham Strong, who writes a blog called A Few Strong Words and also writes white papers, has a post called: Cutting Out the Noise
There he talks about his own experience shutting down IM and email most of the day as an experiment to see if he really did get more done. Not surprisingly, he found he did.
Sometimes I wonder, no, I recognize that I like to be connected – to have the radio on, to let email notify me with a sound that more mail (spam) has arrived only because I don’t want to hear the constant chatter in my …read more