We all know running is good for you, but did you know running can help you become a better writer, too? It’s true. As writers, we spend a lot of time, well … writing, or thinking about writing, or thinking about how much writing we should be doing. Plus, there’s so much more that goes into “writing” than just cranking out the words. There’s the initial writing of the shitty first draft, and then the revisions, and then the edits, and more edits. And if we’re promoting our work, we’re also tending to and trying to grow our social media platform. We’re working on building our author brand (and if we’re not, we should be). If we have a blog, we’re blogging, which is also a lot of writing and almost another animal when it comes to promoting our content. We’re at our desks hours at a time, typing away, getting lost, hopefully in our creative endeavors, but also getting sucked down the social media rabbit hole when we should be … writing. It’s both …

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