You know that when you sit too long, it’s not good for you. You may have even heard that “sitting is the new smoking” because of how it increases your risk for overweight, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. But you exercise 30-60 minutes a day. You eat healthy foodsContinue Reading
For me, different parts of my writing journey have brought different challenges. When I first started writing professionally (in 2007) I struggled to balance it all. While that has remained a challenge to this day, (I pair freelance writing which pays the bills with book writing which doesn’t…yet!), now IContinue Reading
~Writing Well Wednesday Tip~ As we all know, writing isn’t an athletic activity. Those of us who devote hours at the computer are likely to suffer the consequences, and that often includes extra, unwanted pounds. They come from all those hours sitting, not only when you’re writing, but when you’reContinue Reading
Sitting at a desk for long stretches of time takes a toll on my body in many ways. When I’m chugging along, it’s hard to avoid as many as 20 hours at a computer each day. But to be fair, this is the case with all of us who workContinue Reading
I now use a standing desk in my writing business. After researching the dangers of sitting for hours (over six hours increases your risk of, um…death), and looking into the options that are out there today for standing desks, I convinced myself I needed to make a change. I didn’tContinue Reading
If you’ve been writing for a while, you may now be thinking about how to find your best standing desk. A lot of writers are. We sit so much—often for hours at a time—and we know it’s not good for us. A treadmill desk can be pricey, and the movementContinue Reading
People laugh when I say writing is hard on your body. They imagine me a sitting comfortably in a chair all day long, but that’s precisely the problem. I don’t want to die like the French novelist, Honoré de Balzac. He was plagued with health problems because he often spendContinue Reading
The biggest physical challenge for me as a writer, is neck and back pain. I find when I get immersed in my writing I don’t realize how much time has passed. Sometimes it can be a few hours. I know this is not good for my body and once IContinue Reading