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How to Remedy the Pain that Comes with Sitting Day In and Day Out

2020-07-15
By: Colleen
On: July 15, 2020
In: The Healthy Writer, Tools to Write Pain-Free

by Melissa Muldoon Nobody warns you when you set out to write a novel that it could be detrimental to your health! I found out the painful way! During the past five years, I’ve been glued to my computer pounding out three novels set in Italy that celebrate art andContinue Reading

How Writing Helps Me Make Sense of Life

2019-06-26
By: Colleen
On: June 26, 2019
In: The Writing Life, Writers on Wellness

by Sienna Tristen It took me five years to write my debut novel, The Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming, and I credit it with both the total loss and the safeguarding of my sanity. It would be a different kind of writing, I knew from the start—slower, more introspective, more SocraticContinue Reading

Featured Writer on Wellness: Annie Lyons

2017-02-02
By: Colleen
On: February 2, 2017
In: Writers on Wellness

When I was writing my first novel, I gave little thought to my physical health—how I was sitting, the postage-stamp size of my desk, if in fact squinting down at a screen with hunched shoulders was a good idea. I had two small children and an urgent need to getContinue Reading

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