Focus session · writing · 90 min

90-minute focus block for writing — distant thunder, when you have just finished work

A timer, a short prep list, and 90 minutes to get words down.

90:00

Press start. The timer keeps time so you do not have to look at a clock.

Let your shoulders drop about a centimetre. That is roughly where most of us keep the day. The gap right after work is the easiest one to use. This is a short one, so let's use the time properly.

1 Before you start

Have a piece of paper beside you for the thoughts that will try to interrupt.
Decide in advance that a bad sentence is still progress.
Decide now what you will do when the timer ends. Otherwise the decision will eat the first five minutes.
Expect to want to stop at about the eight-minute mark. That is normal and it passes.
Set the timer where you can see it, or where you can deliberately not see it.

2 While the timer runs

If you are bored, the boredom is usually the last thing before something clicks.
Notice the moment your hand moves toward your phone. That moment is the whole skill.
If you are stuck, say the problem out loud. It changes what you can see.
The first urge to stop usually arrives early. Sit through it once and the second one is quieter.

3 When it ends

Note what you actually got done, not what you meant to get done.
Put the notes you made where you will find them next time.
Do not immediately open the thing you were avoiding. Give the block a proper end.

4What to put on

distant thunder — Low rumbles with long gaps. Suits people who find sudden noises more distracting than constant ones.

This page is a tool, not a course. Nothing is tracked, nothing is saved, and nobody is told whether you finished.

If this block does not fit, try A 25-minute block for admin and email, with brown noise, if you are fitting this around other people, Focus session for data work: 45 minutes, birds at dawn, when you have been on screens all day or A 90-minute block for data work, with a stream, when the day has been loud.