Comments on: On The Job https://booksquare.com/on-the-job/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=on-the-job Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Sat, 26 May 2007 15:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Christine Allen-Yazzie https://booksquare.com/on-the-job/#comment-165836 Sat, 26 May 2007 15:41:46 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2007/05/24/2407/#comment-165836 I want to know who these authors are who get an advance big enough to buy baby shoes. ; ) Seriously, you don’t have to torture yourself with walks and bikes…get an inverter, make sure your car battery’s in good shape, pack a little table with your laptop, and go camping. No need for locked doors or that formidable practice, exercise.

For me, focused (short-term/a day to two weeks) crunches (i.e., leg-chewing, if in the wilderness or indoors) have been very useful. If I were to get up to walk around or anything else, I’d find excuses to stop writing, and I might not return to the project for…let’s not incriminate ourselves, *quite a while*.

]]> By: Susan Helene Gottfried https://booksquare.com/on-the-job/#comment-165833 Fri, 25 May 2007 23:43:20 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2007/05/24/2407/#comment-165833 I prefer bike rides to walking, myself, and frankly, I’m up for the challenge of bringing youth back from screens to paper.

But that’s me and I’m a little bit left of center. Or West of Mars, depending on which map you’re looking at.

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