How to ease those writer’s aches and pains

Oh lord, yes. I ache in the lower back and hips from sitting at a keyboard all day. Exercise!! I need more exercise!!

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I bet you’re just like me, trying to find ways to write and stretch the kinks out at the same time. 

Ain’t easy is it?

I think writers suffer with these aches and pains because we sit too long-lost in our thoughts as we breathe life onto a blank page.

If you’ve sat at a desk any length of time, you know what I’m talking about.

I started sitting at a desk when all typing was done in triplicate on a Selectric Typewriter. My hands have more knots than a boy scout climbing rope. And don’t get me started about my neck and back. 

typewriter-584696_640But what’s a writer to do? Me I’ll take a little cheese with my whine…. LOL 

All joking aside, as a young woman I didn’t worry about taking care of my joints. Wish I had. Like so many today, thought I was invincible. Now, its hot baths…

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Michael Dellert is an award-winning writer, editor, publishing consultant, and writing coach with a publishing career spanning 18 years. He is currently working as an independent freelancer. He lives in the Greater New York City area.

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2 comments on “How to ease those writer’s aches and pains
  1. Thanks for the reblogg Michael, but exercise? Let’s don’t go crazy. I just mentioned standing up on occasion.

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