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Last time, I mentioned the benefits — to creative work — of being physical and then next time I looked at Freelancer’s Toolbox, found it mentioned there. Here’s the validating passage, along with a lot of other good stuff:

I can’t tell you how many times I had writer’s block. I set aside a few hours in the morning every day that I forced myself to only work on the book. And if nothing was coming out of my brain I would read articles about my subjects, read transcriptions or read about my topic (running) on websites. The only no-no with this is to not let yourself fall so in love with research that you are never writing. If you find you haven’t written for two days in row, close your computer down, go do something physical to get your brain moving, then come back and sit down with a clear desk (don’t open your email program) and write. It will come. Other tips: Look for inspirational quotes or re-read articles or writers that you love to get inspired.

Having spent the past 4 days working on this house, I have quite had my fill of at least this particular type of being physical. (My bike waits neglected in the garage.) Yet, today needs me to finish rehanging curtains and putting back furniture and catching up with laundry and shopping and all the daily domestic chores that got set aside. Company coming for the rest of the week starting tomorrow, so it will be late, late nights and early mornings for writing and otherwise stolen moments in between for this blog.

This is not a complaint: I’d rather be living life than writing about it any day. It just happens to be my particular thing to need to do both the living and the writing, and so is always my challenge, figuring out how.

Welcome to readers coming from the Creativity-Portal, a few of from whom I’ve  gotten some good e-mail notes. I do read all e-mail, by the way, but it can take me some time. Comments are always welcome, too, though, yes, R.K., I do agree that commenting just won’t do.

Now to putting this house in order.