POSTURE
I LOOK AROUND MYSELF and I see people bent over their desks and papers as if scrutinizing an organism about the size of the period on this sentence. I watch them occasionally drop their pens and shake their wrists vigorously, watch how they roll their stiff heads around their neck as if they were asparaguses, how they twist around and try to crack their lower backs.
This might explain their slow writing paces, after all, no one likes doing things if they are uncomfortable doing them. You head is about nine percent of your body weight. For an average adult, that'd be roughly fourteen to fifteen pounds. That's as heavy as a standard bowling ball. When you hold something as heavy as a bowling ball, you don't hold it out infront of you as if you can't bear to bring its round, repulsive shape towards your chest. That would destroy your lower back! Instead, you hold it by keeping it close to your chest like a lover, well above your center of gravity. This aplies to your head, in a sense. If you bend over your paper, your head is far from your body, and thus your lower back will suffer. Although nowadays with modern desks, having to bend over your paper like a broken Jack-in-the-Box seems neccassary. The early desks were a lot smarter. They were slanted so you didn't have to bend over. You can emulate this on your flat desk by using a large book(s) (Atlas Shrugged, a paperback edition of War and Peace, or Random House's edition of In Search of Lost Time are the best choices), placing it/them on the surface and put a hard surface slanted against the front.
As for writing utensils, I see people clutch writing utensils as if hanging from a cliff, they drop them and shake their white knuckled wrists as if their pens were just forged from molten rock. I bet if I looked at their pages, I could cleary see imprints of their writing clear into the next two pages. My heaviest pen is a little less than an ounce.There is no need to grip an object that weighs an ounce like that. Write lightly.
Posture is something that is often overlooked in the world of writing. However, posture will definately affect the way you write and how long you write, be it an essay for school, a short story, a poem, or a novel.
This might explain their slow writing paces, after all, no one likes doing things if they are uncomfortable doing them. You head is about nine percent of your body weight. For an average adult, that'd be roughly fourteen to fifteen pounds. That's as heavy as a standard bowling ball. When you hold something as heavy as a bowling ball, you don't hold it out infront of you as if you can't bear to bring its round, repulsive shape towards your chest. That would destroy your lower back! Instead, you hold it by keeping it close to your chest like a lover, well above your center of gravity. This aplies to your head, in a sense. If you bend over your paper, your head is far from your body, and thus your lower back will suffer. Although nowadays with modern desks, having to bend over your paper like a broken Jack-in-the-Box seems neccassary. The early desks were a lot smarter. They were slanted so you didn't have to bend over. You can emulate this on your flat desk by using a large book(s) (Atlas Shrugged, a paperback edition of War and Peace, or Random House's edition of In Search of Lost Time are the best choices), placing it/them on the surface and put a hard surface slanted against the front.
As for writing utensils, I see people clutch writing utensils as if hanging from a cliff, they drop them and shake their white knuckled wrists as if their pens were just forged from molten rock. I bet if I looked at their pages, I could cleary see imprints of their writing clear into the next two pages. My heaviest pen is a little less than an ounce.There is no need to grip an object that weighs an ounce like that. Write lightly.
Posture is something that is often overlooked in the world of writing. However, posture will definately affect the way you write and how long you write, be it an essay for school, a short story, a poem, or a novel.
