Health

7 Healthy Activities That Won’t Take Five Minutes of Your Time

Ah, yes, the glamorous life of the freelance writer. It you have a day job, like me, you stumble out of bed at the crack of dawn. Looking...

Writing with Mania

During my struggles with bipolar disorder, my main challenge has been depression. I've found dozens of ways to force myself to write when...

How to Keep Your Muses Healthy

Let's be honest. My muses can be total bitches, especially when I'm already feeling depressed and they heap criticism on top of me....

Fighting Depression with Everything I Have

It's been a while since I've added anything to this blog. That's because, in spite of ECT, depression is still kicking my tail. Through...

A Shocking Development: How ECT Gave Me Back My Writing

"There is not much else I can do for you chemically," my psychiatrist told me directly. "And that means?" I asked, trying to care. "I'm...

Do You Have Writer’s Burnout?

I'll never forget that Friday years ago when I hauled myself out of bed after only a few hours of sleep and stumbled to my computer for ...

Keep a Gratitude List in Your Writing Workspace

I'm lucky enough to be one of the 5.7 million Americans living with bipolar disorder. Although it is usually well controlled by...

Writing and Depression

The alarm beeps and I slap my hand over it to stop the noise. I feel as though a rock is sitting squarely on top of my chest. Although I...

Writing 101: Recognizing Your Blind Spots

My 12-year-old cat, Achilles, has a problem: He doesn't realize that his tail is supposed to be permanently attached to him. On most...

What Every Work-at-Home Writer Needs: A Routine

The Free Dictionary defines a routine as "a set of customary and often mechanically performed procedures or activities." When you're...

The Care and Feeding of the Freelance Writer

If I asked you to name your most important business asset, what would you say? Your computer? Your printer? Your iPhone? What about you?...

Getting Stuck on Your Writing Projects? Try Taking a Break!

Have you come across a problem with plotting or writing one of your articles that you just can't seem to resolve? Are you determined to...

Living and Writing with Bipolar Disorder – Staying on the Road

Imagine the best day you’ve ever had, a day when you were filled with energy and confidence and felt like you could take on the whole...

My Morning Routine: I Can’t Sit Down to Write Unless…

When I'm on the road, I can write almost anywhere. Curled up in an airport watching the snow and ice cover my plane. Squeezed into a...

Debra L. Stang