Christine Caccipuoti

I spent July on a writing retreat in a cabin – that is to say, a virtual cabin. While staying in this virtual cabin, I had one goal: to write 20,000 words of my newest project, a historical fiction novel set in the early Napoleonic period. My cabin was cozy and in my head it was nestled somewhere cold. In reality, I was parked in my bedroom each night, usually between the hours of midnight and 4 a.m. (prime time to a nocturnal lady like myself), with my air conditioner pluggi

The term “Writer’s Block” is one that gets tossed around quite often in writing communities, and understandably so…yet for me the problem is rarely being blocked, it is being exhausted or overwhelmed, a condition I call “Writer’s Fatigue”. It comes with the following symptoms: dread at sitting down at the computer, mastering the art of procrastination, getting a headache or the desire to nap when time for writing occurs, and an extreme heaviness between the shoulder blades. I