This post is part of my ongoing “How to Write When…” series.
As I draft this – after a very busy summer! – I have 1,278 unread emails in my inbox.
Most of those aren’t emails from individuals awaiting a reply. (Though apologies if you’re one of the people who has emailed me and hasn’t had a reply yet!) The majority of those emails are updates, newsletters, alerts, and other mass mailings.
A mountain of unread emails can be a huge distraction from writing. Here’s what one reader wrote in the Aliventures survey:
“I spend most of my time dealing with an overfull mailbox that I just can’t seem to control. I unsub as many as possible but there still are thousands to go through. I
have way too many files and way too many things to deal with.”
So how can you write when you’ve got such a heavy load of emails to handle?
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