Let the geekery begin. 
TYPEWRITER 
My all-time favourite tool for writing is my Freewrite Smart Typewriter by Astrohaus. No websites. No distractions. Just a mechanical keyboard fixed to an e-ink screen to display the words.
I wake at 5am, get coffee, and type away on this glorious, old school device in my kitchen.
Because it's not connected to the internet, I don't get sidetracked by email or social. They keyboard's got clicky, mechanical keys that feel satisfying to type .
The screen's a tiny e-ink display I rarely glance down at. Instead, I write with my head up, looking out the window at the stars, then sunrise. I can even type with my eyes closed and just get lost in the world I'm writing.
It's a fluid, delicious creative experience that encourages long hours of work. I look forward to it when I wake up. And I write thousands more words on this thing than anywhere else.
I lied to you though! This smart typewriter IS connected to the internet. Outbound only, though. It sends my drafts to Evernote, Dropbox and Google Drive, where I can edit them later.
Technically you can edit on the e-ink screen, but the slight friction involved (using arrow keys to go back, since there's no mouse) is just enough of a disincentive to encourage you to keep on typing, and to second-guess yourself as little as possible.
It stops you blending self-critical tweaks-and-edit-mode (which should be saved for later) with free-flowing, exploratory-ideas-mode, which is the creative flow mode needed for first drafts. I think that's why I've stop looking down at the screen, and can start to look up or close my eyes, as I draft.
My Freewrite reminds me daily that first drafts can be adventures of blissed out imagination - liaisons with the muse, downloads from the multiverse - instead of nightmarish slogs with the Woody-Allen voice of your ego sniping in your ear. Life changing writing tool. Source of delight. End of rant.
ZERO DISCOMFORT 
So, I'm prone to RSI. And when I get back to my room and start working on a laptop (for editing etc.) I have a couple tools that keep my hands in good shape. If you write a lot, or get pain in your hands, you probably need these.
I use a wrist rest to support my typing hands and a vertical mouse, which completely nixed the pain I used to get from RSI. I used to have this cheaper vertical mouse, but it sucked soo bad. Constantly ran out of juice or unpaired itself & drove me up the wall, whereas the MX vertical has been bliss to use. Seems like it's the best one out there (from reviews) and it was def worth the extra I paid.
Compression gloves are inexpensive and frickin awesome. They feel tight and snug on your hands to protect joints from arthritis and the like. But honestly, I use them because Northern Ireland is coold and I never put on the central heat. What?! Gas and oil are expensive, yo!
So these fingerless gloves make it comfy to type without your fingers freezing off (save money on heat; reinvest in your business!) I also use a wooly hat lol and this hipster neck buff, which you can pull up over your nose if it gets super icy. And I keep a blanket on the back of every chair (just in case).
Basically, cold and pain are distracting. So let's eliminate them. (& so do better work!)
ZERO FRICTION 
Also, I'm a stickler for environmental design. Ideally, I wanna swan up to my desk and start writing immediately, not fiddle around trying to plug in laptop chargers and the like.
So what I like to do is have an Echo Dot setup in my room, so I can cruise in and say, 'Alexa, let's go!' and that's her cue to power up my Macbook Pro charger and my Wacom monitor. I hear a satisfying double click as the Smartplugs switch on and I can just turn the devices on at eye level.
I mean, I guess I could just always leave them turned on at the plug, but I hate the idea of wasting all that energy and potentially damaging my computers by keeping them perpetually on charge.
I control the desklamp this way too. And you can ask her to remind you of stuff. Like if you put a chicken in the oven before you started work and you're worried you'll forget once you get sucked 'into the creative zone'. Just say, 'Alexa, remind me about the chicken in 90 minutes.' Then you can let go and get absorbed into your work, knowing you won't forget.
Also, if you say, 'Alexa, thank you darling'. She says, 'No problem, sweetie', which I think is charming. It's always important to be welcoming and playful with our robot friends. Their sentience may be our future. 
EDITING 'IN THE ZONE' 
I also adore, 'Alexa, play Thunderstorm Sounds' while I work. Since it puts me right into deep work mode and helps me feel focused. Trains my subliminal systems that, 'This is focus time. No distractions!'
I also have a power cable dangling form my desk, and I plug my iPhone into this because it's very nearby - within reach - but at a weird angle, dangling under the desk, so I can't see it (to get distracted). If the power's low, I can say, 'Alexa, phone: on' and it will set my phone to charge (because phone cable's connected to Smartplug).
Btw I have all my phone notifications set to off, so my phone never ever beeps or pings or shows me a notification badge tempting me to check something. Instead, I just keep all the apps that have inboxes in one iPhone folder, and I check them manually about twice per day. So if you need me urgently, you have to call me. And even then, if I've got it set to 'Do not disturb' for a deep work session, then only my starred-favourite contacts (fam and close friends) can get through.
You should totally try this! You won't believe the feeling of space and freedom it opens up in your mind. I also have social media uninstalled so that, if I need to check it, I've got to navigate there on a browser. For me, that means I still get to check social now and then, but there's enough of a buffer to curb the rabid addiction factor.
And now for software. At my desk, when it's time to edit, I like to paste my Freewrite drafts into Scrivener. If it's a long-form document that is. Word is fine, but I love the way Scrivener lets you split your doc up into multiple research sections and multiple chapters and they're all organised on a sidebar to the left, so you can easily click back and forth between them. Scrivener has a thousand snazzy features, but just that simple, intuitive navigability of long-form documents is what makes it a winner for me. I basically ignore all the other bells and whistles, so the learning curve was non-steep for me.
NIXING INSOMNIA W/ BOOKS 
After a long day, before I sleep, I like to curl up in my armchair with a Kindle and flit between fiction and nonfiction books. I read nonfic till I'm too tired for concepts. Then I read fic often till my eyes blur and I literally can't read on. For a life-long insomniac (who loves reading), I can't believe it took me this long to realise reading before bed cures insomnia. Walking at my desk probably helps too. Plus these weird, sci-fi blue-light glasses I use in the morning.
The Kindle Oasis has warm-coloured backlight that makes me want to drift off (warm light primes sleep, cold light primes waking). I keep my e-reader protected in a snazzy blue, leather sleeve that someone made for me on Etsy and somehow makes me feel like I'm reading from a magical tome out of a classical fantasy story. If you miss the real book smell, don't worry you can replace it with this lush leather smell. I literally hold it to my face while I read for soporific olfactory vibes.
It def is kinda magical to be able to instantly download and read near any book you can think of. Plus you save a tonne on book purchases as the Kindle texts are priced lower.
The best bit about reading digitally though is the way you can underline and annotate your reading. I use an app called Readwise to gather all my highlights and notes so I can review them daily. I've never experienced such an effortless way to absorb and remember the insights from books I read. I can even tag different highlights, while I'm reading, to remind myself what project I think x or y could be useful for.
I'm not an affiliate for Readwise, but I think they run one of the best services out there for writers and readers. I'm a drooling superfan. And their Reader app (in open beta) lets you do the same thing with PDFs and blog posts or newsletter reading.
Here is an earnest poem of gratitude I wrote them in their customer feedback survey:
'Software is an extension of mental life. And not having a workflow for my PDFs is like having a mini-stroke. Like there's a tiny dark spot in my intellectual life where some things I'm curious about don't get processed. So working with Reader means knitting those extra virtual neurones back in.'
Okay, I won't gush any more about them. For now.
AUDIO 
For lighter reads, where I don't need notes, I use Audible. Again, this is a money-saving way to read as, if you divide the 2 books pm membership price by the number of audiobooks you get, the price-per-book is low. And you can pause your subscription if you're ever skint. The value of audiobooks is being able to go grocery shopping with sound cancelling headphones in, so you can float along in a world of magical narrative (untarnished by drudgery). Sound cancelling means you can keep listening, even when there's loud traffic noise all around you, but you don't have to turn the volume up (subtly damaging your ears).
When you start a meditation practice, you realise that all the media you absorb in a day stirs up your mind and needs to be processed. I've noticed news, TV, films and even podcasts (to a lesser extent) each stir up my mind in a way that's hard to settle down from. But listening to a long-form audiobook story doesn't fragment or disturb my mind in the same way. It's a coherent narrative experience, rich in structured meaning, and it soothes my mind and keeps me in a settled, reflective mode that suits my creative process. For this reason, I prefer audiobooks to podcasts, while I'm out and about. Also, you get more books read that way!
EXERCISE FOR LAZY CREATIVES 
I love to use a standing desk, so I don't become a hunched-over knowledge-work goblin (you can make it standing or seated height by pressing the buttons that raise/lower it by motor). And I like to run a treadmill underneath the desk so I can walk slowly as I type (it's shaped like a rug, rather than some big bulky thing, so it doesn't get in the way).
Walking while typing is weirdly uplifting. I often get better ideas and a boost in mood as soon as the motor starts (cardio is a well-known way to switch off the nagging part of your mind and get into flow state).
Flow is also the name of an awesome free widget app I use to tell me when 60 or 90 minutes work is done. So then, if I've been sitting, I get up and do sets of a strength exercise in my 5 mins break. It's pretty cool: You never have to force yourself to go to the gym if you know you're gonna either walk at your desk or do a leisurely round of strength reps once an hour or so. It's all built in, and the forces of can't-be-bothered/don't-have-time-to-exercise procrastination somehow don't even notice you beat them.
It's kinda the lazy writer's secret, dream guide to regular exercise - I never have to think about doing it, I know it's just gonna happen. All dialled in & effortless. Like I suppose technically there's physical effort involved, but somehow it never feels that way - because there's no mental effort required (I don't need to negotiate with myself about it which, it turns out, is more than half the battle).
SEXY KEYBOARD
Oh. One more thing. My keyboard. If you're looking for a sexy mechanical keyboard at a low price, don't pick this one. It'll drive you mad. Annoyingly, the question mark (& other punctuation) will randomly stop & you have to do a crazy cheat code (CTRL ALT blah blah) to get it back.
DO get this rad keyboard. It has a beautiful rainbow of backlight possibilities, but I keep mine set to pink (warm light for the win!) And it has all the functionality you want, never seems to run out of battery for me, and stays blue-toothed in forever (whereas my last one would keep unpairing). Of the low-priced keyboards of delicious mechanical clack (brown switches in this case), this one is a winner. Typing should be a satisfying experience if we're going to be doing so much of it.
Okay, that's it. All the tools I love for focused writing.
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Thanks for reading. xo