Yep, I managed to hurt my wrist/hand no less. It's called going to Tae-Kwon-Do and having an unfortunate accident involving sparirng and someone kicking your hand *g* My non writing hand (left) thankfully but of course you need both hands to type and it's not pleasant (also my hand is an interesting shade of purple at the moment). So has anyone else ended up with inconvenient to writing injuries.
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"I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white." (Aaron Sorkin)
50,093 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 16 15
Woo hoo! I joined the "I'm Sick!" club because there wasn't an "I'm broken!" club...and here it is!
----------Much sympathies on the martial arts owie. I got punched in the chest a week ago in class and broke a rib. Sucks, that. Now I'm missing a couple weeks of class, a couple weeks of work...whine. The up side is I don't have a hand injury (that really does suck) and I have some time to write.
(and, as I have been hit hard enough before to have broken ribs, and a broken sternum, I'm looking into a motocross chest plate- call me Robo-kyu...ha!)
Ramble
wordcount widgets
50,196 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 17 31
Hello!
Omg! XD I have developped (already) some cramps in my hands. It hurts so much! Like when I write in class, I have to clench and unclench my hand several times during the day for the pain to subside. It really sucks. T___T
----------NaNo 2008: Unwritten, Unplanned, Unthought about.
NaNo 2007: An Unforgivable Secret (Won!)
20,227 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 19 01
I've been having terrible trouble with my wrists too. I type and mouse all day at work, and apparently maintaining wordcount on top of that is redlining things. I've pulled out the ace bandages and started doing extensive stretches again, and I feel better right now, but I'm not sure I'm going to maintain pace like this.
Hang in there, my fellow writing wounded.
68,433 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 20 13
I had knee surgery this morning to remove some scar tissue caused by an old injury.
Surprisingly, I'm not in as much pain as I expected...then again, I'm on some pretty potent pain pills. I just have to say thank goodness for laptops and breakfast trays than can be converted into a table for said laptop:)
----------2006: A Deeper Magick- won
2007: AngelFalls Book 1: Fallen Angel- 4,284/50,000 (unfinished)
2007: Bell the Cat (official title)- 13,472/50,000 (started 11/3)
Watch me swiftly fall to pieces at http://sarcasticcinder.livejournal.com
50,009 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 20 29
...My "My girlfriend who I really liked just dumped me because she only likes me as a friend" is worth an entry here, no?
Although if anything, it may make writing easier for me, because I can just randomly insert an emo character who loves to rant/vent! xD
...=(
50,010 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 01 40
Like many, my wrist is already giving me trouble, and the first week isn't even over! I spent alot of time typing every day (Nano or not), keep a hand-written journal...and, to top it all off, I work as a cashier, which means I'm clenching and unclenching my hand all day around a scanner, which totally fucks up your hand, let me tell you.
I'm thinking of seeing a doctor, but if they tell me I have to rest my arm for a month or two...well, that's just not happening. I think I'll just buy a wrist brace for now...
But, nothing can beat last year! I was doing great, totally on top of my word count, maybe a bit ahead...and then my friend, a fellow-NanoWrimo-er, got hit by a car. She was alright, but the ordeal itself, and the following days of recovery (she was staying with my roommate and I because our place was easier to get to than hers) completely derailed both our novels. This year, we're back and writing with a vengeance!
50,043 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2007 - 11 38
FYI, A writing teacher friend of mine sent me this in an e-mail.
----------"Be careful to take periodic breaks to spare the muscles in your hands, not to mention the nerves in your wrists. I'm reading my favorite author right now, Oliver Sacks. He is a neurologist who is gifted with a level of compassion and insight that few physicians have these days, and he is also a fantastic writer. I was reading the chapter in his latest book, “Musicology,“ about something called ”musician's dystonia.“ Writers can also get it. It's completely different than carpal tunnel syndrome, but it can be career-ending for musicians. (Writers have more alternatives for getting the words out of their heads, so if you can't use a pen, you can use a computer, and if you can't use a computer, you can dictate.) Basically, your fingers stop doing what you want them to do; sometimes just one, sometimes several. They aren't paralyzed; they just start going into odd spasms, but *only* when you are trying to play your instrument (or write something down). For many years it was deemed a neurosis, but brain mapping now shows that it's originating in the cerebral cortex, so it's physiological, just not in the peripheral muscles or nerves. It's actually a fascinating and mysterious syndrome, from a scientific point of view. "
"Have your best day ever." Ron Hulnick
11,083 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 00 59
I've had problems with my hands being sore since I got done with clinicals back in July. My hands in general are sore and so my fingers and up into my wrists are bothering me with this amount of typing. Fics are typically around 2200 words a chapter and I only do a couple of those a week and if I don't get it out no biggie. I gave up my fics for this month until I hit a real snag just to take some stress off of my fingers and wrists. Plus I got back problems so that in general makes it hard to sit and write for long periods of time.
----------~ Ri
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1283643/
NaNo 2007 ~ Darkness' Light
80,001 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2007 - 13 58
Holy crap. I've been doing it wrong all this time, and I never knew. (My chapters are giganto-long.) Aiee!
Anyway, my eyes are being their special little selves, and I think I've done bad things to my legs, because suddenly it hurts to walk. Damn you, Adventure class! DAMN YOU!
Senioritis -- Four men in a coffeeshop. They write a novel.
----------Echo Flux -- Peasant girl saves the world... with SCIENCE!
Senioritis -- Four men in a coffeeshop. They write a novel.
Echo Flux -- Peasant girl saves the world with SCIENCE!
(That was NaNo 07. Screnzy?)
Ballroom Blitz -- The kind of highly-meta play that gets written by a student in Tech Theatre.
53,454 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 20 45
I've so far managed to avoid injury, but I got whacked in the face with a stick last weekend in martial arts class and broke my glasses across the bridge of the nose. So now they're krazy-glued together until I get my new pair (they say a week to ten days) and keep falling off my face. This is not helpful.
And, regarding wrists: doing slow pushups on your knuckles, being sure to keep your wrists straight as you go, gets rid of the typing pain amazingly.
50,073 / 50,000
Nov 9, 2007 - 21 23
I was sick, and THEN i was injured. I had a minor eye injury, feeling better tonight but it just dug my hole deeper. Sigh. This weekend is going to be brutal. At least I hope it's brutal, if it's a nice relaxed weekend then winning Nano's not looking good for me this year. :(
I hope all the other injuries heal fast.
----------SF '08: Times Ten
Nano'06: Journey North (Winner)
Nano'07: Winterlong (Winner)
50,144 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2007 - 05 07
I'm not exactly 'broken', but I am starting to get some pain in my hands from all the typing. I think it's the way I type on the keyboard that does it. I only use my thumbs, index and middle fingers to type, and I'm pretty fast, so the last two fingers on each hand end up staying in this kind of tense position the whole time. It's starting to hurt.
----------Still, my NaNo is progressing, so it's completely worth it. I can live with a few hand cramps. =)
NaNo 2007: Destruction of the Dodo - 50K!
50,023 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2007 - 07 28
I've started to get some pain in my hands just in the last day or two. I'm pushing for 100k this month, which means a lot of typing every day, and my fingers just aren't used to that. And I'm a good typist, and I use the Dvorak keyboard layout (which is easier on your hands than QWERTY). I can't imagine how much I'd be hurting if I was touch-typing or writing longhand!
----------NaNo 2006 - Divergence: 50,021
NaNo 2007 - A Love in Darkness Wrought: 50,023
50,049 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2007 - 08 02
I fell down a flight of concrete stairs the day before NaNo started, wrenching my right shoulder and bruising my hand. The scrape on my ifnger from sliding it along a concrete wall is still there, and hurting. But I can type fortunately. I just can't go for too long a stretch or my shoulder starts cramping.
Here's to everyone overcoming and winning despite stupid bodies!
Anna
50,004 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2007 - 20 50
I definitely belong in his club. I suffer from continuous motion syndrome, a permanant injury to my wrist and hand. Always aggravated by repetive mations with my hands. Not a good deal for a writer...
----------Instant Human: Just Add Coffee
50,147 / 50,000
Nov 13, 2007 - 20 51
My leg started spasming on the Friday, and still feels all pins-and-needles now. It's given out on me a few times while walking. And when it starts spasming, I can't stop it and it will twitch for hours. (Real fun when you're trying to write with a laptop on your lap.)
I'm going in for a bunch of scans this week.
Wheee!
----------NaNo:
Chronicles of Shydia -- 06'
On the One Path -- 07' - Winner
Script Frenzy:
Stained Glass -- 08'
31,208 / 50,000
Nov 13, 2007 - 21 59
*screams*
That is the most horrifying thing I have heard about hand injuries. I will know be talking myself into developing this disease by the end of the week...sigh...neurosis anyone?
17,395 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 14 06
I definitely belong in this club. I have both arthritis and severe fibromyalgia, and my body decided to gift me with the worst flareup I've ever had and pain in a completely new place just in time for NaNo. The only thing that will help it is to get restful sleep, and yet every position I get into makes me wake up screaming from pain. Needless to say, sticking a nine-pound laptop on my lap and writing isn't helping the pain any at all (but it still hurts less than using the desktop), and I'm so loopy from painkillers and new medication (to help me sleep, except that it's just making me tired because I CAN'T sleep) that I can't get into what I'm trying to write at all, despite being really enthusiastic about it.
I tried voice software, but apparently I've got the wrong kind of regional accent for it or something because Dragon Naturally Speaking doesn't understand a bloody word I say. I even get different misspellings for the same word every time I try to say it!
So, so damn frustrated. :( I wish I could get a tape recorder that would somehow count the words you say, that way I could simply transcribe them another month when I'm not hurting so much.
53,894 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 18 34
I went out to ride my dirtbike for inspiration and ended up crashing into the side of the shed. Oops.
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Nov 14, 2007 - 20 03
I jammed my finger during football in gym. D': Now two are taped together...but I shall type on! I don't need that finger!
Maybe...
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'The true mind can weather all lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can touch the poison of hatred without being harmed. From beginningless time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light.'
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