How can you turn the new scientific studies showing how terrible sitting for even half an hour at a time straight through is for your health into something great for your writing? Sounds counterintuitive, doesn't it? Taking breaks all the time to stop writing, when you only have a set amount of time to compose, seems like it could divert attention.
But in fact, if you do the exercises in this book, which stands alone, but which also accompanies the Somatics for Writers classes, you'll come out a better writer, getting ideas faster, and be able to stay healthy longer to enjoy your success.
You can order with PayPal or contact that email for my address to send a check, or buy it with a credit card with the Store at Tantra Bensko's Online Writing Academy. It is 12 dollars including tax, shipping and handling.
You can also buy the printable PDF for 5 dollars in any of the above ways.
If you take the Somatics class, the workbook PDF is included, and if you live in the continental U.S., the print copy is mailed to you for free. If you live overseas, you can chose to pay the extra shipping if you want the book. It's included whether you are overseas or not when you buy the Interactive Somatics class.
Scientific studies show that writers, due to long periods of sedentary activity required to produce material, are suffering for their art in many ways. See Dr. Mercola's articles:
Chair.
Intermittent.
Kills.
His recommendations for what to do during breaks are great, but if you're on a roll, have limited time to write, want to finish your work instead of get distracted from it, are there other ways to use those breaks that actually get you ahead with your writing in direct tangible ways, save time on trying to come up with what happens next, improve it so much it will be published more easily and make you money faster by more sales, so you can enjoy your time even more? Yes. Yes, as you probably guessed, there are.
This book includes simple, clear instruction for writing fiction that doesn't ignore the body, including the brain as a changing, vulnerable, malleable part of it. Where else have you ever found that? Instead of instruction that only treats writing and reading as cerebral, let's look at the hormones and neurotransmitters involved not only in our interest in the plot for primal reasons, but at other possibilities more subtle and varied, and how to affect those in our readers.
We can use our body and attention to discover exactly why we are drawn to reading in the various stages, and how to make our readers feel that with our fiction. We can use our breaks with exercises designed to make sentences more muscular, scenes more vivid, avoiding bare infodump dialogue and abstract free-floating characters. Use a hypnosis technique to make readers bond with the protagonist, and can access the subconscious story going along under the surface all the time. Write your narratives from a standpoint of action, not inaction, and see how much that improves it. I would never try to come up with the big plot points sitting at a laptop.
I always use these techniques now and so never worry about whether I'll figure out what happens next any more. It's like magic.
It should be much easier to get up and do these exercises when led by an instructor who is up and at'em too, sometimes in rumpled tee shirts like you are at home alone writing, sometimes goofy and acting out characters with an alien mask or with a beard, sometimes snazzed up to help you get your dance on and get revved up to write, like a fitness and writing buddy in one. The classes are audio, video, and Skype, so they are done during the break times standing and moving, so you can learn more about writing while you take your breaks from typing, and stay on track to more successful publications.
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But in fact, if you do the exercises in this book, which stands alone, but which also accompanies the Somatics for Writers classes, you'll come out a better writer, getting ideas faster, and be able to stay healthy longer to enjoy your success.
You can order with PayPal or contact that email for my address to send a check, or buy it with a credit card with the Store at Tantra Bensko's Online Writing Academy. It is 12 dollars including tax, shipping and handling.
You can also buy the printable PDF for 5 dollars in any of the above ways.
If you take the Somatics class, the workbook PDF is included, and if you live in the continental U.S., the print copy is mailed to you for free. If you live overseas, you can chose to pay the extra shipping if you want the book. It's included whether you are overseas or not when you buy the Interactive Somatics class.
Scientific studies show that writers, due to long periods of sedentary activity required to produce material, are suffering for their art in many ways. See Dr. Mercola's articles:
Chair.
Intermittent.
Kills.
His recommendations for what to do during breaks are great, but if you're on a roll, have limited time to write, want to finish your work instead of get distracted from it, are there other ways to use those breaks that actually get you ahead with your writing in direct tangible ways, save time on trying to come up with what happens next, improve it so much it will be published more easily and make you money faster by more sales, so you can enjoy your time even more? Yes. Yes, as you probably guessed, there are.
This book includes simple, clear instruction for writing fiction that doesn't ignore the body, including the brain as a changing, vulnerable, malleable part of it. Where else have you ever found that? Instead of instruction that only treats writing and reading as cerebral, let's look at the hormones and neurotransmitters involved not only in our interest in the plot for primal reasons, but at other possibilities more subtle and varied, and how to affect those in our readers.
We can use our body and attention to discover exactly why we are drawn to reading in the various stages, and how to make our readers feel that with our fiction. We can use our breaks with exercises designed to make sentences more muscular, scenes more vivid, avoiding bare infodump dialogue and abstract free-floating characters. Use a hypnosis technique to make readers bond with the protagonist, and can access the subconscious story going along under the surface all the time. Write your narratives from a standpoint of action, not inaction, and see how much that improves it. I would never try to come up with the big plot points sitting at a laptop.
I always use these techniques now and so never worry about whether I'll figure out what happens next any more. It's like magic.
It should be much easier to get up and do these exercises when led by an instructor who is up and at'em too, sometimes in rumpled tee shirts like you are at home alone writing, sometimes goofy and acting out characters with an alien mask or with a beard, sometimes snazzed up to help you get your dance on and get revved up to write, like a fitness and writing buddy in one. The classes are audio, video, and Skype, so they are done during the break times standing and moving, so you can learn more about writing while you take your breaks from typing, and stay on track to more successful publications.
Sign up for Tantra Bensko's Online Writing Academy Newsletter.