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According to Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London, walking is a celebration, a creative instrument, an insurrection, a liberation, and a means toward the ends of empowerment and creativity. She writes: “Why do I walk? I walk because I like it. I like the rhythm of it, my shadow …
Back to my favorite topic! Walking helps writers get unstuck. Whether facing writer’s block, or just needing to develop some new ideas, taking a walk can help. “Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas,” said J.K. Rowling. Pyschology Today draws a parallel between the REM dream state and the meditative-like state attained by exercise. Rhythmic exercises like walking …
One of my favorite inspirational sayings is: “You don’t have to go fast. You just have to go.” I recently read that poet William Wordsworth composed most of his poems while walking through meadows, moors, and mountains. He rambled in every kind of weather and all over Europe. In fact, a friend calculated that he had walked 180,000 miles in …
The Latin phrase “Solvitur Ambulando” means “It is solved by walking,” and is attributed to Diogenes. Walking? “What problems have ever been solved by walking?” you may ask. Walking is decidedly low-tech and not particularly glamorous. Nothing could be more simple for those of us lucky enough to be ambulatory. Walking is so boring that the word for a person …
A truism we writers already know! Much research has been completed that demonstrates the link between an active mind and an active body. The simplest effect is that during exercise, blood flow increases to the brain. But according to an in-depth article from Ferris Jabr in The New Yorker, there’s much more going on when we’re walking. “Walking on a regular …