Want to Write? Pick up a Hammer.

It’s hard to write on a construction site. Hard, but not impossible. Keep the notepad close to your chest, and you can jot down a sentence or two in the odd slack moments between tasks. Better yet, hide paper in your toolbag: in the time it takes to write a few words, it looks like you are just fumbling around for a new razorblade or drill bit. And if all else fails, there is always the cell phone. Tap out a quick note, and it seems like you are merely fucking off in the tacitly-accepted modern fashion—not doing something so peculiar as writing.