Listen to your body

Your body often tells you things you ignore and continue pushing it, to keep working. Keep writing. Keep sticking to that word-count goal, or page-goal, or whatever goal you have.

This is counterproductive to your writing.

Your mind sits in your body—inside your head—and it’s nothing more than a bunch of fat, blood, and nerve cells. And other tissues the names of which I don’t know. And if’s missing something, it won’t functioned properly, no matter how much you try to force it (you know that...