It’s every writer to their own, but I want to warn every writer about the dangers of doing this one silly thing that can ruin your day.
It’s getting dressed.
There’s great danger in trying to force your arms into a sleeve while also writing a note about an important thought that just won’t wait and has to be written down.
The shoulder pings, crunches, pops out of the socket …
The scream is a slow build-up, the pencil is dropped, the hand used to hold the arm still. The faintness in the brain as blood rushes to the gut, to weight the body down.
Don’t move, don’t move, it says, or pain will be forever.
Okay, I’m back now … with one useful arm. Not my good arm.
The warning — writer, write in your jammies, don’t get dressed while cogitating story, and who cares what the postie thinks!
I might have to head off to a comfy spot and pop a pill with the cup of tea — how am I going to hold a cup of tea? Oh, yes. Nan’s trick: tip it into the saucer a bit at a time; easier to hold than a cup or mug.
Now for that bikkie — how can we be so useless with only one arm?
And you know the worst of it?
I’ve got some really good story things rattling around in the head. Really good ones.
Ain’t that the way of it?
Cage Dunn - Fibber, Fabricator, Teller-of-Tall-Tales 
I would love to spend my day climbing on everything and then taking a nap.
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And being comfortable with any nap-position
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Ouchie, Cage!!!!!! Heal up asap. Use a tape recorder until then. You don’t want to let those ideas get away. Cats are the essence of cool.
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the essence of suave
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Oh dear! However I seem to recall that Danielle Steele wrote in a flannel nightgown. Heal well and heal soon Cage.
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thank you – good advice from ms steele
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Nooooo!!! I actually popped my shoulder out of socket a couple weeks ago and it was horrible. I was laying there just crying and crying. Yes. Best to stay in jammies… or in bed in general…
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sorry it happened to you, too. it’s bad, and i’m expecting to be laid low for a week … or so
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That’s what happened to me. Had to visit the chiropractor every couple days. But all better now! You don’t realize how much you need your arm until… you don’t have your arm. Seriously. I put off showering for FOUR days! lol I was like, nope. And sleeping hurts, everything… ugh.. I just know what you’re going through in my own way… I’m visualizing quicker-than-normal healing for you.
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Jammies are the best writing clothes! Almost as good as cats’ furry little suits, but cats don’t write.
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but they do type if you’re not looking …
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“Stay in jammies” is my rule, too. I hope you heal quick!
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hahaha this is too relatable!!
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Oh dear! Hope your arm is better, Cage. Sounds like you were rushing, trying to get out of those PJs a little too quickly. It’s a non-work day for me (gosh this is hard…working, being a mum and wife, trying to keep up with writing for pleasure, my blog, commenting on other blogs…you know how life is!) but I’m already out of my jim-jams and in my fitness gear and about to head off to my regular boxing class. Have a great day!
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The shoulder still gets its say in things I do – no more than ten minutes at the keyboard at a time … and probably why I was rushing to get the idea down before it slipped away into the normal day-to-day of everyday, everyday, everyday monotony (which isn’t that bad, really, especially if compared to …).
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True 😀
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