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Exercise, Brain Stimulation and Writing on the Move
There’s a big irony to the writing process, and it is this: While we seek to optimize our creativity while writing, the inert nature of the task works against the brain’s ability to perform at its imaginative best.
It’s become axiomatic that flashes of insight or even grand epiphanies come to us while showering, driving, walking, hiking through the woods and so on. In other words, breakthrough thinking comes during physical activity when the brain is charged with quicken blood flow and a higher dose of dopamine and other chemicals.
Balancing Your Writing Life – Exercise Your Body
Is your life balanced? Do you work, rest, and play equally? If you’re a modern person, juggling writing, a day job, and a family, your response is: “What are you talking about?” Most likely, we need to move more*, play more and rest more.
Physical exercise is a wonderful counterbalance to the focused mental work and solitary lifestyle of a writer. Our work as writers needs to be first priority if we want to get our work done. Ironically, however, making time in our schedule to move reminds us that we are more than only the mind. We are of the body too.
Exercise Your Writing to Improve Your Book – 2 More Exercises to Reduce Writing Fat
Having a little fat in our food is good. Our bodies need fat. But too much fat is bad for us. Unfortunately most of the taste is in the fat. So we all tend to overeat where fat is concerned. That’s where diets and exercise come in.
Writing is the same. A little fat is good. A lot is a problem. Writing exercises help to keep your fat output under control.