Whenever I have the chance, I like to visit the blog of Marijke: nurse turned writer. Click here
Marijke is combining her long clinical experience as a registered nurse with her writing talent and now writes medical and health related material professionally, so her blog is always filled with interesting health related information. What I like best is that at the end of each blog she has links to the health and medical news for the day. Her side bar contains an ever changing list of links to what she calls “interesting and important health and safety info.”
So, right now you’re thinking: nice, Ter, but what has that got to do with us. We’re writers. The last thing we need is to make one more stop on the information superhighway when we should be WRITING.
Well, for one thing, the blog is a wealth of information and Marijke is a very nice lady, so perhaps she would point you in the right direction for research for the health issue in the story you’re going to write in October. (Didn’t think I knew about that did you?)
And for another, here’s a health link from Marijke’s blog that could be of great concern to writers. It's a report on a study that says laser printers can effect air quality. Click here
Well, I don’t know how ventilated your workspace is, but here in New York it’s summer. We’re having a ninety degree heat wave and I haven’t opened a window in my computer room since last weekend. I have my printer right on my desk top next to my monitor and what with writing and querying, I print lots of pages every day and whatever particulates spew forth, they spew right in my face and head for my lungs.
All these years I thought I saved my lungs when I gave up smoking. Will I have to give up printing next?
Terrie
Friday, August 3, 2007
Sorry, No Printing Allowed
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I'm a fan of Marijke's blog already but I hadn't thought of picking her brains for all my health research. What a good idea!
I wonder if she knows much about killing characters off in suitably dramatic fashion?
Thanks for giving me one more reason to hate my printer.
Dawn,
Marijke's blog is so full of research, I have a feeling if you want someone to have a rare disease or a fatal illness, she could probably say, "Oh, yes, see my post of June 23rd."
I know of at least one gun guy and one poison lady floating around, who will help with the dramatic murders.
Travis,
I laughed out loud at your comment, now go write another chapter of your book.
Terrie
I agree, Marijke's blog is a wealth of information--a great resource for all kinds of medical information.
And this printer problem is indeed disturbing. (I solve that by never managing to get anything written; thus nothing ever needs to be printed!)
Crabby, you have one of the most interesting blogs on the Internet. You certainly have the ability to write. What's stopping you?
And if you focused on your writing, what would you write?
No need to answer if you don't want to. I'm just wondering.
Terrie
Wireless transmissions and laser printers and eyestrain and anxiety from the sheer overload of info...computers are bad news. But I'm hooked....
Lois,
Me,too.
Terrie
I'm not going to worry. I worked in newspaper offices that did their own printing. Ink is in my cells now. I probably need it to survive.
Terrie,
Thank you for the blog compliment! (Blogliment?)
I actually have written 3 (unsold) screenplays and 1 (unsold) novel. Gave up on the screenplays. I'm part way through another novel, but was getting tired of writing without ever having anyone but my critique group see the results. I did manage to get an agent, but unfortunately, she couldn't sell the novel.
I kept hearing that nonfiction is an easier sell, and the blogging thing looked fun, so I thought I might try my hand at building up a bit of a platform and trying to write humorous self-help books. And then simultaneously finish my second novel, which, I fantasized, people would be more interested in once a was a published author.
Well, ha ha ha ha ha! So far, I seem to have done nothing but blog ever since I started it up. But it's incredibly rewarding to have "readers" from the very beginning, even though I'm a long way from being published. At some point, I need to get some better time management skills so I can actually have some work to market if I ever build up enough of a platform.
Anyway, sorry for the really long answer, and thanks for asking!
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