Sunday, November 30, 2008

Excitement and pain

I'm excited that in Jan-Feb I'm going to be doing a virtual tour of Balancing on the Edge of the World, and some lovely bloggers have already agreed to take part. One of these is the super Clare Dudman, who like me suffers sometimes from that writers' (and bloggers') scourge, RSI. I haven't had it in a long while, but this week it returned and the knuckle at the base of my index finger (my mouse-clicking finger) is positively swollen. At least it's only my hand and wrist this time. Once, the time I was doing 12-hour stretches on my radio comedy drama series The Circle, my whole arm, shoulder and collar bone were affected, and by the time I had finished (it always gets worse when you stop, I find) I had to have my arm in a sling to ease the pain of it pulling on my collar bone. So I should stop blogging this minute...

So far my book tour will go to the following great blogs: Keeper of the Snails (Clare Dudman) Dovegreyreader Scribbles, Me and My Big Mouth (Scott Pack), Tania Hershman, Debi Alper, Charles Lambert, Caroline Smailes and Vanessa Gebbie's News.

4 comments:

Tania Hershman said...

That makes three of us... several years ago, my RSI was so bad I had to stop typing for several months, a whole-arm pain experience too. Urgh. I must stop typing...
Looking forward to hosting you on my blog and being the one to ask the questions this time!

Elizabeth Baines said...

Guess we're a community of RSI sufferers - strange that people don't mention it all that often.

Debi said...

Even more reason for my recent decision to turn off the laptop and write in longhand ...

Looking forward to hosting and delighted to see I'll be in such good company.

Elizabeth Baines said...

Yup, that's what I'm doing this week: writing in longhand.

Really looking forward to visiting both your blogs, D & T!