My new favorite tool
I recently downloaded Simple Blocker. Have you used it? It’s a way to stop yourself from wasting time online instead of getting work done. You simply list all the sites you want to be blocked from, such as Facebook or Twitter, or anyplace you waste time, whether that’s newyorker.com or etsy.com or ilovepugpuppies.com (is that a real website? It should be!). Then set the timer for as long as you want to be blocked, and voila–instant way to keep yourself working!
About a week after I found Simple Blocker Hillary Homzie wrote about it on From the Mixed-Up Files, so I guess all us middle grade writers are using it.