Prioritize your well-being with advice and strategies focused on maintaining a healthy balance between writing and personal health. Explore topics like ergonomic writing practices, mental health tips, and lifestyle habits that support sustained creative productivity.
Hours spent at a desk can take a toll on the body. Most writers understand this feeling, considering it a labor of love. Many also know that a fitness routine may keep them writing longer, but then comes the next step: finding the time necessary to implement whatever program they’...
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The holidays often come with a long to-do list and unrealistic expectations. Attempts to recreate the holiday bliss depicted on television and maybe even in your stories may leave you feeling mentally depleted. And sometimes, one casualty of the holiday chaos is...
How Authors Writing Heavier Stories Manage Their Mental Health In the middle of research, author Terry Wells-Brown had to step away from her story. She’d interviewed a district attorney in charge of human trafficking for her book, but in the process of learning about the topic, it became too...
Mixing Work and Pleasure While you’re outside, you can still work but in a different, relaxed, and meditative way. Nature offers a wealth of sensory experiences. Harness details from your time outside to infuse directly into your writing, bringing scenes alive so your readers more fully enter the worlds...
A Q&A with Disability Book Week Founder Mary Mecham Nicole Schroeder Author Mary Mecham is passionate enough about books to have a collection of almost three thousand of them in her house. “It’s basically a library here,” she jokes. She shares the passion with her two daughters,...
Chelle Honiker Facing the blank page, with the cursor blinking like a beacon of wasted time, writers often find themselves in a silent standoff with their own creativity. The challenge goes beyond simply putting words on a page; it's about summoning the muse, maintaining focus, and breaking through...
