BIC HOK TAM – It hurts so good

My friend, the fabulous YA writer Edith Cohn, recently wrote on her blog that sore-butt syndrome is usually the result of high writing productivity.  Butt-In-Chair-Hands-On-Keyboard-Typing-Away-Madly (BIC HOK TAM) is a favorite writer’s motto that explains the only way to get things done is to sit down and do them.  The past couple of days have been the rear-end aching kind of days for me, and this is a good thing.  Yesterday I spent nine hours at UCLA taking class, reading, and writing.  The majority of these nine hours were spent in those terribly uncomfortable chair/desk combos so often found in institutions of higher education.  Yes, those chairs are functional and save space, but no one can walk after sitting in them for two or three hours straight.  Seriously, you lose all feeling below the waist.  But I digress.  The good news about all this sitting time was that between getting my homework done for a super-packed course load, I got in some good book writing.  I went to jot down one quick sentence and ended up with three pages of material.  Gotta love the flow state.  So the productivity?  Definitely worth the ache!

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