Stealing Time

The Art of Compartmentalizing

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We’ve all experienced the phenomenon of stepping outside the stream of time. When we’re watching a movie or absorbed in a book, the linear world can melt away. For writers, this happens when we immerse in our work. We start at nine in the morning and next thing we know, it’s three in the afternoon. Only for most of us, having a stretch of hours in which to work is a luxury. If we want to…