Therese blogged about ways to jumpstart your creativity. The subject has been on my mind a lot, because I’ve spent the past month overhauling my office. It’s a great, if ordinary, space–a bedroom upstairs overlooking the street and a view of Pikes Peak and the entire Front Range, which changes daily with light [...]

A good many of you will be writing madly for NaNoMo this month, trying to finish a book in 30 days. How will you stay healthy during this time? As a veteran of numerous NaNoMo’s (otherwise known as the deadline blitz), I have a few suggestions.

I’m going to foray into Therese’s area of expertise, which is health, just for today.  Lately I’ve been chained to my computer for long patches of time as I try to finish a project, and my back has been on fire, and I feel like an old wonton folding in on itself.
In desperation, I looked [...]

That is a mold of a butt. Probably a nicer butt than mine, but a butt just the same. I have a similar imprint on my chair after this past week. See, I had some good news–a request for a full–and felt the strong urge to read through my manuscript. One. More. Time. After not [...]

Welcome to 2008. I don’t believe in New Year resolutions, but I do have a few suggestions for writers wanting to start this year with energy and enthusiasm.
We often talk about technical challenges on WU – plotting, character development, style, language and so on. We don’t deal so much with the health and [...]

Does this happen to you? You’re driving somewhere that takes about 20 minutes. Suddenly, the solution to a knotty problem that’s been plaguing you in your wip pops into your head. But you’re driving. You can’t pull over. You can’t drive and write, either (though you think about doing it [...]

Normally, Therese is the one with the health-related posts on writing.  But I came across this tidbit of news today that I thought I’d share with you:
Writing Reduces Stress.
Really?  Sometimes I think writing increases stress, especially when I can’t get a scene to work or everything on the page sounds like drivel.
Researchers have found that [...]

I’m putting on my health-writer cap to ask you an important question today: Sit much?
As a writer, I’ll bet you do. It’s important to chat about, because anyone who sits for long periods of time can be at risk for a condition called deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Large blood clots can form in the [...]

You’re working feverishly on your latest novel when you notice it—a tingling pins-and-needles sensation in your fingers and hand. Those of us who spend a large part of our day typing away at a keyboard are at risk for a class of health problems called cumulative trauma disorders. One in particular stands out as being [...]

Got Casual Fridays? If you work from home, every day can be Casual (Fri)day, but if you work in a corporate setting M-F, then you might especially love dress-down workdays. Lucky you, I’m on deadline, which means I’m steeped in health information, which means I sometimes stumble across tippy nibbles that writers might be [...]