: Re: How do you communicate to people that writing is a job and prevent interruptions? Iâ€™ve been a writer for fifteen years, five as a full-time writer, and still havenâ€™t figured out how to

If you cannot change other people, you can change your own situation:

switch off your phone, set up an answering machine that you are at work
have separate private and professional email adresses, only check the professional one while working
switch off your door bell
if someone knocks at your door, don't answer
wake up as early as possible so that you are finished when other people are coming to you after work

The important thing is that you should not be fighting other people's perception of you but the effect of that on your work. But if that perception is also important to you, display the results of your work prominently in your home and gift others the results of your work if they are something interesting for the general public like novels.

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: Two suggestions: 1) Flag your intention as early as possible. Open your novel with a line like, "Some mysteries aren't meant be solved." 2) Be vague about the clues: what matters is how

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