Book Writing Hurts

I haven’t had a carpal tunnel flare since 1999, when I was hand-coding html for some dotcom with a ridiculous business plan; well, make that a dotcom with NO business plan. Yesterday, my arms started to hurt and I realized I’d been typing nonstop for two days about business blogging for our book. During that pain flare, I also fantasized that [Catherine Zeta Jones](http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/catherinezetajones/) was narrating the chapters instead of the voice in my head, which is getting rather annoying (for the sidebars in the chapter, I’d like that booming CNN voice to read them). Dear readers, when you get the book, please substitute your voice for mine!

A blog lineup

We’re working hard to include more than the usual suspects in our book and much of what I’ve been writing about includes blogs like

* [CleverChimp](http://cleverchimp.com/)
* [Left Brain/Right Brain](http://www.kevinleitch.co.uk/wp/home.php)
* [New West Snow Blog](http://www.newwest.net/index.php/snow_blog/main/C458/L41)

After a short break to stretch my arms and observe sideways rain which has been pouring from the skies nonstop here in Seattle, I’m back to writing . . .