Pay Yourself First by Gabriel Valjan

 

Pay Yourself First

 

A writer’s jobinvolves a lot of sitting - scribbling in a notepad, or hunched over in achair, typing. Do you have a daily exercise routine? What advice would youoffer to other writers, to keep themselves fit and healthy over the longerterm?

 

I thought of the myth of Antaeus, the wrestler in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, when I read thisquestion. Antaeus remained undefeated, so long as he touched the ground.Readers learned that he drew his strength from...