I am blogging today from a write-in, which is basically where a bunch of writers get together and just, well, write! It’s for National Novel Writing Month, popularly known as NaNoWriMo, which is basically the challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel just in the month of November.
This particular write-in is a 12-hour one (usually they last about two or three hours). Toward the beginning of the day, one of the guys mentioned that he just saw the chiropractor the other day – his neck and back was bugging him from so much typing throughout the month. I laughed at him and asked if he shouldn’t have waited until after the write-in.
It’s more true that I thought it would be. After sitting here writing for about nine hours, my neck hurts, my back hurts, my knees hurt, and I am coming down from a significant caffeine buzz. It’s worse that it would be writing for this long at home, because there aren’t as many comfortable seats at this tea house as there are in my house. (When at home I love to write in my comfy overstuffed rocker, on the couch, in bed, at my desk… Wherever my mood takes me.)
I wish I had some alternative ways to treat my discomfort — other than drugs, I mean. I’ve heard that magnetic therapy for pain is pretty effective for neck and lower back pain relief. Basically magnet therapy products are used to create a focused magnetic field that stops pain transmissions in their tracks.
Even though I don’t have anything fancy like that, I still intend to avoid taking any medication tonight. I’m thinking maybe a nice, long, hot, relaxing bath sounds like a good substitute!
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