{"id":47804,"date":"2013-03-06T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=47804"},"modified":"2013-03-06T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:52:21","slug":"fitness-for-writers-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/fitness-for-writers-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness for Writers, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ByHeart_MohsinHamid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ByHeart_MohsinHamid.jpg\" alt=\"ByHeart_MohsinHamid\" width=\"615\" height=\"945\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ByHeart_MohsinHamid.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ByHeart_MohsinHamid-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\u201cWriting a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.\u201d Mohsin Hamid\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/03\/get-fit-with-haruki-murakami-why-mohsin-hamid-exercises-then-writes\/273722\/\" target=\"_blank\">fitness tips for writers<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vidaweb.org\/three-years-to-stump-and-stack-and-stem\" target=\"_blank\">Vida results<\/a> are in, and they are, as per usual, damning.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI was bored at work and looking for a distraction.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bkmag.com\/BrooklynAbridged\/archives\/2013\/03\/04\/slaughterhouse-90210-best-tumblr-evr\" target=\"_blank\">Maris Kreizman<\/a> on the birth of <a href=\"http:\/\/slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slaughterhouse 90210<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>It is <a href=\"http:\/\/litworld.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Read Aloud Day<\/a>, should you have a child handy! (An adult will do too.)<\/li>\n<li>Why it\u2019s needed? <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23FictionalCharactersIWantToMarry&amp;src=hash\" data-query-source=\"hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\">#FictionalCharactersIWantToMarry<\/a> is a thing. (Reuven Malter, not that you asked.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWriting a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.\u201d Mohsin Hamid\u2019s fitness tips for writers. The Vida results are in, and they are, as per usual, damning. \u201cI was bored at work and looking for a distraction.\u201d Maris Kreizman on the birth of Slaughterhouse 90210. It is World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[2081,8847,10261,126,10262],"class_list":["post-47804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-haruki-murakami","tag-maris-kreizman","tag-mohsin-hamid","tag-twitter","tag-vida"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fitness for Writers, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 6, 2013 \u2013 \u201cWriting a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.\u201d Mohsin Hamid\u2019s fitness tips for writers. 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