Just A Thought

.... but aren't all writers (who were born with slow metabolisms) pudgy?

This job entails a lot of sitting around, getting thicker around our middles in the process. We spend a lot of our time facing the computer screen, or the sheet of paper, or restaurant napkin if you want to be Beatnik about it, setting our ideas and emotions down as words. If there was a way of writing while working out, or being physically active, I'd do it. I almost envy writers of old, who'd had to literally live out a story, hack out a few months in the forest, chopping their own wood, who'd travel cross-country on beat-up motorcycles - Keroauc, Twain, I mean them - just to be able to write.

Back to work. As I said, it's just a thought.