 For Authors: September 04, 2019 Issue [#9700] |
This week: Write! Your Life Depends On It! Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Write! Your Life Depends On It!
A study conducted in 2005 that examined the benefits of writing found out some exciting benefits to our physical and emotional health. The study followed writers over a four months period and found that creative writing even as little as three to five times in those four months made a difference.
Traumatic, emotional, or stressful events lead to fewer illnesses and affected the participants less when they wrote about those events. People who did not write about those events spent more time in hospitals, had higher blood pressure, and even a lower liver functionality.
Even physical wounds heal faster for writers. In 2013, researchers in New Zealand found that those who wrote about a planned surgery ahead of time healed faster. 76% of the writers were fully recovered after 11 days while 58% of the control group that didn't write had not recovered.
Writing can improve the health of anyone. People suffering from asthma experience fewer attacks if they are writers. AIDS patients have a higher T-Cell count if they are writers. Writing improves the optimistic outlook and improves the quality of life for cancer patients.
How is this possible?
Expressive writing helps you to slow things down and evaluate life. Obsessive thoughts about events become fewer and instead writers focus on moving forward. This leads to stress levels going down, which in turn causes overall health to improve.
But it gets better.
Think you have to NaNoWriMo every months to reap these health benefits? Nope. Not at all. One study found that blogging releases dopamine much in the same way as it is released while running or listening to music.
So what are you waiting for?
Write! Your Life Depends On It!
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I received the following replies to my last For Authors newsletter "Coffee and Word Count"
Beholden  wrote: Ever since my double by-pass operation, coffee has been forbidden to me and I drink de-caffeinated only. Strangely, my body is quite happy with this and I don't miss the real thing at all. It seems there really is life after coffee (in more ways than one)!
Glad to have you around!
hbk16 wrote: But some persons could be more sensitive to Coffee side effects. It could be a stimulus to writing indeed. As each author is sensitive to specific stimulus or stimuli. As I think that there is a strong link between inspiration and motivation. As motivation takes precedence over inspiration. Good issue indeed which needs further debates.
Thank you for your reply and insight.
Quick-Quill  wrote: Yes, word count without substance is not worth reading or printing. The secret is to know the difference.
Definitely. The caffeinated crazes of NaNoWriMo often include a couple of nuggets of great writing. Hiding within 49,850 words of blah. |
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