Yesterday I was tempted to delete every email in my inbox.

Not a clean-up. A wipeout.

I was frustrated with the noise and how easily it pulls me away from what I actually want to do, which is write my stories.

Over half of what’s coming in is offering programs. Some of them are probably very good. But right now they’re just more input, more decisions, more time spent circling instead of writing.

It made me realize something.

I’m not in a learning or collecting season. I’m in a creating one.

And those don’t coexist very well.

Right now, I need to protect that attention.

So I didn’t delete everything. But I started asking a different question.

Does this help my writing this moment … or pull me away from it?

If it’s the second, it doesn’t belong in my inbox right now.

Am I alone in this?