Every writer knows how important focus is for good writing. Getting in the writing zone is a tough process and once you’re there, it’s frustrating to be disturbed or distracted. And since the mind is usually is actively looking for an excuse for distraction, the littlest things can break a writer’s tempo and concentration.

Writers who face such problems can now get WriteMonkey.

The download file is merely an ~1.5 MB archive. All you need to run the program is to extract the setup files; no installation is required. Running the program turns the whole screen dark with nothing but a blinking green cursor:

WriteMonkey is a straightforward program which tries eliminating all distractions within your computer by converting the entire screen into a writing screen. All you’ll be seeing on the monitor is your typed text.

But before this, every time you run the program, a small screen is shown with a nice different quotation each time:

The colors on the screen, of the text as well as the font, are completely customizable. Your text is stored in ultraportable TXT files. And since the program requires no installation and has a minuscule size, you can carry it around in your flash drive.

Moreover, WriteMonkey come with some essential writing tools like word and character counters. Writers can also set time or word limits. Say you only want to write for an hour but you know that once you get started, you’ll lose track of time. Simply specify WriteMonkey to let you know when the hour’s up. Similarly, if your target world limit is 500 words, you can specify that value in WriteMonkey which will show you a world limit progress bar; that bar will reach its final stage as you go along writing your piece.

Apart from these, WriteMonkey has several commendable useful features which are described in more details here.

For writers, WriteMonkeys is the perfect portable tool to help maintain one’s focus while writing.