Stevea Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys' quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

As you can imagine, I do a lot of writing.

That means I have to write fast.

Write fast? A whole lot.

Writing is one of those things that grabs your brains and sucks it down for hours,

kind of like an over-eager zombie.

In my tenure is Get It Done Guy. I've learned a lot about how to make the writing process work and work well.

Write fast by choosing a focus editor. In order to write fast, you need to rev up your brain and keep

it there. We're talking seventh gear. Eat your heart out, NASCAR. When you're writing at a computer,

you can get your brain revved up by using an editor that takes up the whole screen, all of it. You want this puppy to take over

everything. Goodbye taskbar, goodbye taskbar, goodbye dock, goodbye menu bar. Your brain is a turbocharged

writing bunny on acid, ready to rock and using full-screen mode will keep you on track

at the head of the pack. Microsoft Word has a full-screen mode. Sadly, by full-screen, they mean

full-screen except for the cluttered toolbar at the top of the screen that is screaming out to

distract you. Mac Pages has a truer full-screen mode, but my turbocharged bunny brain scoffs at these big clunky word

processors. Instead, I turn to basic text editors so that my mind is completely with my text.

I have two favorite full-screen editors. One is Oam Writer, which runs on both Windows and Mac.

It has optional New Age music, and not only provides an uncuttered screen,

but it also disables notifications and other interruptions. Most of my writing, however, is done

in IA. Writer for the Mac. IA. Riders' full screen mode also has a focus mode. Focus mode is a

brilliant invention that fades your document into the background except the sentence you're typing,

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