Katie-Ellen
Full Member
- Sep 25, 2014
Writing. It's physical.
Modern tools, modern writing woes. We know the blue light of our screens affects our sleep, knocks off our circadian rhythm. We need at least an hour between looking at the screen and settling to sleep for the night. We know we need to look out of the window, lengthen our focus, and to get up and move about, ideally every 20 minutes, or at least for ten minutes in every hour of writing.
But at least we don't need to worry about wet ink. Writing woes from a monastic scribe, Florentius of Valeranica, written in 945-
"A man who knows not how to write may think this no great feat. But only try to do it yourself and you shall learn how arduous is the writer’s task. It dims your eyes, makes your back ache and knits your chest and belly together—it is a terrible ordeal for the whole body. So, gentle reader, turn these pages carefully and keep your finger far from the text. For just as hail plays havoc with the fruits of spring, so a careless reader is a bane to books and writing."
Modern tools, modern writing woes. We know the blue light of our screens affects our sleep, knocks off our circadian rhythm. We need at least an hour between looking at the screen and settling to sleep for the night. We know we need to look out of the window, lengthen our focus, and to get up and move about, ideally every 20 minutes, or at least for ten minutes in every hour of writing.
But at least we don't need to worry about wet ink. Writing woes from a monastic scribe, Florentius of Valeranica, written in 945-
"A man who knows not how to write may think this no great feat. But only try to do it yourself and you shall learn how arduous is the writer’s task. It dims your eyes, makes your back ache and knits your chest and belly together—it is a terrible ordeal for the whole body. So, gentle reader, turn these pages carefully and keep your finger far from the text. For just as hail plays havoc with the fruits of spring, so a careless reader is a bane to books and writing."