Ergonomics

Just a quick thought-prodding idea for today, from something I’ve found myself doing, lately. If you have a writing schedule, then it’s likely your brain knows exactly when you’re supposed to start.  For me, that’s 5.30 am to get into yesterday’s edits, and I should be writing new manuscript by 6 am. But when you […]

I’m pretty savvy with technology.  I had the first computer out of everyone I knew–a for-gosh-sake Commodore 64, complete with printer and floppy disk drive.  I ran a resume service using that computer.  Yeah, really.  Then I switched to an MS-DOS PC with a whole 20mb on the hard drive!  Ooooh!  I wrote stories using

Many years ago, I learned that many professional, full time writers have workstations dedicated ONLY to writing.  All the other business of writing — bookkeeping, promotion, post production, etc — all that business was kept on a separate computer.  Or computers. Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, in particular, are well known for have

I’ve tried standing desks. I’ve used sitting desks. And I’ve even used a device that would turn my sitting desk into a sit/stand desk, which only lasted for about a year before I gave it up and went back to sitting. In the last year, thanks to that global event we’re all so sick of