Reader Twell asks:<\/p>\n
“Good lord, man! How on earth do you do it? There\u2019s only a few romance writers that put out more books, and I\u2019m betting that those are actually teams of writers using a single pen name. At the least, you must be using voice recognition, otherwise you\u2019d be crippled by carpal tunnel years ago.”<\/em><\/p>\n I don’t use voice recognition. I type everything (and I write everything myself – no co-writers). How do I avoid carpal tunnel (also known as repetitive stress injury, or RSI)?<\/p>\n Short, glib answer: pushups! Lots and lots of pushups. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Longer answer: I do exercise a lot. Over the last year, I’ve reduced the amount of running I do, and I’ve replaced it with a lot of strength exercises – pushups, squats, various types of lifts, and so on. Ideally, I like to do strength exercises three times a week, and running three times a week, though life can interfere with that.<\/p>\n It seems to work. By the end of 2017, I think I’ll have written about 1.3 million words, and I don’t have any problems with RSI.<\/p>\n I don’t base any of my characters on myself, but I will admit that some of my fitness nuttery has bled into Nadia Moran and more recently into Jack March. I am 6 foot 2, and in 2007 I weighed 350 pounds, and realized that I needed to change. The lowest weight I ever reached was 182 in 2010, which was in hindsight was likely too low, and as of last week I was at 207. Which is probably reasonable for a man of my age, height, genetic background, and career.<\/p>\n So, to sum, I do exercise a lot of keep RSI from developing. So far it’s worked!<\/p>\n -JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reader Twell asks: “Good lord, man! How on earth do you do it? There\u2019s only a few romance writers that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,9,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrata","category-ebooks","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZ6ri-2ir","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/KindleFireHD10Screenshot.jpg?fit=1140%2C715&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8843,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions\/8843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}